Lessons from Kenya protests | Monitor

This week, young Kenyans poured into the streets of Nairobi in big numbers to protest the high cost of living and taxes they said were too much to bear.

Using social media, the youth mobilised hundreds of their folk in protests in which lives were lost, scores were injured, and property worth millions was destroyed.

Protesters had demanded that legislators vote against a finance Bill imposing new taxes.

In neighbouring Tanzania, the traders held a strike, which started in Dar es Salaam’s Kariakoo district, a popular market area in the country…