{"id":178333,"date":"2024-08-11T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-what-next-for-gen-zs-digital-revolution\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T18:11:01","slug":"kenya-what-next-for-gen-zs-digital-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-what-next-for-gen-zs-digital-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: What Next for Gen Z&#8217;s Digital Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em><em>In Kenya, youth-led protests and political debates surge on social media, raising alarms over surveillance and fake news. Online platforms are now the forefront of activism and dissent.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In the heart of Nairobi, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/african-digital-natives\/t-67646180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new generation of activists<\/a> is rising, armed with smartphones and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/tiktok\/t-63520204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a> accounts rather than the megaphones and placards preferred by their predecessors to drive political and social change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/kenya\/t-19038344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenya<\/a> grapples with soaring living costs and controversial government policies, Generation Z&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408090592.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kenya, youth-led protests and political debates surge on social media, raising alarms over surveillance and fake news. Online platforms are now the forefront of activism and dissent. In the heart of Nairobi, a new generation of activists is rising, armed with smartphones and TikTok accounts rather than the megaphones and placards preferred by their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650877:88729610700c3fdd6489b382d24b1588:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9633,11240,4688,430,257,14191,254],"class_list":["post-178333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-gen","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-revolution","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650877:88729610700c3fdd6489b382d24b1588:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}