{"id":206486,"date":"2025-09-07T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-popular-kenyan-activist-enters-presidential-race\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:21:24","slug":"kenya-popular-kenyan-activist-enters-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-popular-kenyan-activist-enters-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Popular Kenyan Activist Enters Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Special Report \u2014 Kenya is set to witness an unconventional political campaign after human rights activist Boniface Mwangi launched his bid for the country&#8217;s presidency in 2027. The photojournalist turned human rights activist two decades ago is known for painting walls with thought provoking street murals, and leading demonstrations against corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">During the launch of his bid in Nairobi his speech fused the defiance of his activism with a vision of a &#8216;kinder nation,&#8217; pitching himself as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030392.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>Special Report \u2014 Kenya is set to witness an unconventional political campaign after human rights activist Boniface Mwangi launched his bid for the country&#8217;s presidency in 2027. The photojournalist turned human rights activist two decades ago is known for painting walls with thought provoking street murals, and leading demonstrations against corruption. During the launch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660393:ccc47d9a7b15d943d6ddb39d61e12556:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8956,258,256,9519,4688,430,4524,257,11271,6438,5146,254],"class_list":["post-206486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-enters","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-presidential","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660393:ccc47d9a7b15d943d6ddb39d61e12556:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206486","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=206486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}