{"id":216288,"date":"2025-12-10T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-stop-treating-youth-like-phone-fixers-winnie-odinga-tells-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:23:08","slug":"kenya-stop-treating-youth-like-phone-fixers-winnie-odinga-tells-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-stop-treating-youth-like-phone-fixers-winnie-odinga-tells-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Stop Treating Youth Like Phone Fixers,&#8217; Winnie Odinga Tells Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 Winnie Odinga has called on leaders and older generations to stop reducing young people to &#8220;phone fixers&#8221; and instead give them real space to shape Kenya&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking during an event honoring her father the late Raila Odinga&#8217;s legacy on International Human Rights Day, Winnie said Kenyan youth feel ignored, undervalued and boxed into stereotypes that limit their potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">She said young people are exposed to a global world where they are told they are smart, capable and worthy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100569.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>Nairobi \u2014 Winnie Odinga has called on leaders and older generations to stop reducing young people to &#8220;phone fixers&#8221; and instead give them real space to shape Kenya&#8217;s future. Speaking during an event honoring her father the late Raila Odinga&#8217;s legacy on International Human Rights Day, Winnie said Kenyan youth feel ignored, undervalued and boxed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":216289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,45248,4688,430,4381,257,6519,9200,254,8652,7036,14365,20197,6276],"class_list":["post-216288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fixers","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-phone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-tells","tag-treating","tag-winnie","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216288","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=216288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}