Source: @snrgoodman on X
by Wandia Njoya and Mordecai Ogada
On the first anniversary of the protests against the Finance Bill and the storming of Parliament, we cannot help being struck by the reality that Kenya was at this same point it was 30 years ago.
Thirty years ago, we who were in our twenties were facing the same circumstances. The elites had become wealthy from doing business with the government, which they gave themselves the license to do through the Ndegwa report of 1971. They had rigidly stifled dissent, exiled and persecuted people of faith and ideas, massacred whole communities, and in the 90s, were stifling the voices of an emerging generation whose economic prospects were being crushed by SAPs from IMF and World Bank, and who were being broken by an AIDS pandemic with no treatment at the time.
On the first anniversary of the protests against the Finance Bill and the storming of Parliament, we cannot help being struck by the reality that Kenya was at this same point it was 30 years ago.
Thirty years ago, we who were in our twenties were facing the same circumstances. The elites had become wealthy from doing business with the government, which they gave themselves the license to do through the Ndegwa report of 1971. They had rigidly stifled dissent, exiled and persecuted people of faith and ideas, massacred whole communities, and in the 90s, were stifling the voices of an emerging generation whose economic prospects were being crushed by SAPs from IMF and World Bank, and who were being broken by an AIDS pandemic with no treatment at the time.
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