‘We want freedom and we want it now’: Africa’s online population demands its freedoms back
A new outspoken, tech-savvy generation is challenging African autocrats and their international allies. Some pay a heavy price
22 January 2023 - 00:00
“It’s your man who did this,” shouts a woman at a village meeting in Nakuru County, Kenya. She is filmed by Kenyan journalists as she points at another woman, a supporter of a powerful local politician known for associating with gangsters. ..
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