Young people determined to shape our country's destiny

Youth during Gen Z protest in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Concerned that it’s not enough to click, tweet and retweet, young people have cobbled a diverse coalition to sustain the thirst for change. But let me start from the beginning.

Between June 25th anniversary and Saba Saba commemorations, there was concern that we were recording an unjustifiably high number of casualties. Every protest left many people wounded and so many families lost their loved ones. The young people then convened and deliberated on how to sustain the desire for change without putting our peers in the harm’s way. In the many meetings that would follow, the convener of Inter-Parties Youth Forum was tasked with reaching out to other youth leaders across diverse sectors of our society to brainstorm on the way forward.