Hello I'm James Reynolds. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

In BBC OS conversations we bring people together to share their experiences and this time

it's the younger generation of protest in Kenya.

Parliament was set on fire, hundreds were arrested, others died on the streets.

The country's youth, otherwise known as Gen Z, made the president

take note and change course. They want all politicians to hear what they have to say.

I wish that in future we can have public participation, we can have conversations with

those state leaders so that we can ask them questions.

Youth panels that are needed, those same leaders that were elected should

come, but they can't, they're scared.

When William Ruto won the Kenyan presidential election in 2022.

His tales of selling chickens to make a living

appeal to the difficult to reach youth votes.

But now, those in their 20s and even younger

are angry with their president. Like so many other countries

Kenya is struggling with a cost of living crisis it's also got to work out how to

balance its books so the government's answer was a plan to raise taxes in what was called the finance bill.

That bill, the idea of more taxes, created the spark for the protests.

According to estimates provided by the State-funded Rights Commission,

39 people have been killed in those demonstrations. One of the issues underpinning the

protests is unemployment. It's more than that even. It's the difficulty of making enough

money to get by even if you do have a job. So we wanted to hear from those who've

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