How Politics has chained Activism in Kenya
THE STANDARD By Michael Ndonye | December 18th 2020 at 01:22:35 GMT +0300 Activist Boniface Mwangi being confronted by a police officer in a past protest. [FIle, Standard] Many Kenyans cannot tell apart activism from politics and vice versa. Sometimes activists launch offensives against political elites. Other times, and these are many, we have witnessed activism sleep with politics. Whenever activism compromises, the ‘third sector’ aka civil society, suffers. It is a tragedy of capture of the activism in this land. Last week, I visited my alma mater Egerton University, for a saunter...
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