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Parallels between Tom Mboya's assassination and ongoing protests

A man stands his ground along Tom Mboya street during demonstration against the Finance Bill 2024 on June 2nd, 2024. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

I'll depart from the regular sketch to reflect on this momentous occasion. On this day, 55 years ago, one of the nation's foremost politicians, Tom Mboya, died under a hail of bullets from an assassin.

Mboya's bronze monument towers only metres from the spot where he was felled, and it has become the centrepiece of ongoing protests fronted by Kenyan youth.

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