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Considering the 2024 Kenyan Gen Z protest, and the rising discontent among African youths, can literature play the role of lens in times of moral crisis, that too for a population that doesn’t read?
Aug 18, 2024
Collage by Dami Mojid for THE REPUBLIC. Source Ref: Photo 1 - South Sudanese writer, Professor Taban Lo Liyong / TABANLOYONG. Photo 2 - #TotalShutDownKE Femicide Protesters in Nairobi, Kenya, 2024. GEORGE MURIAMA / FLICKR.
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is a writer and Swahili literary translator based in Mombasa, Kenya.



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