Africa’s youth protests: A storm brewing for 2025?

Police Officers attempt to arrest protestors during the anti-abductions demonstrations held on December 30, 2024. 

Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi has been part of countless demonstrations over the years, but the anti-government protests that hit the country last June and July defied all expectations.

Mwangi said he witnessed something unprecedented - a powerful awakening of the Kenyan youth who leveraged social media to mobilise against a finance bill which proposed a raft of tax hikes.