Screenshots showing protesters being hit by water cannons during June 25, 2025 Gen Z memorial demonstrations in Nairobi.
Armed with a flag and a water bottle, young Kenyans are on the streets speaking for us all.
June 25th, 2025 🇰🇪 💚❤️🖤
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Photograph showing thousands gathered for June 25, 2025 memorial march commemorating Gen Z protesters killed one year ago.
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Political cartoon commemorating the tragic events of June 25, 2024, when Kenyan Generation Z protesters demanding the withdrawal of the Finance Bill 2024 were met with deadly force by police in Nairobi. The image is dramatically split by diagonal red and green lightning bolt graphics representing Kenya's flag colors and the violent rupture of what began as peaceful demonstrations. On the left side, heavily armed police officers in riot gear face off against civilians - one officer wears a red helmet with face shield and lime green tactical vest while holding weapons, confronting a young Black protester in dark clothing with hands partially raised in a defensive or pleading gesture. On the right side of the lightning bolt divide, a crowd of young Kenyan demonstrators with hands raised in surrender stands near government buildings, representing the moment when peaceful protesters found themselves under live fire from security forces. The protesters wear everyday clothing - white shirts, dark hoodies, and red caps - emphasizing their civilian status as ordinary young Kenyans who took to the streets to oppose punitive taxation and demand government accountability. The urban Nairobi setting with modern buildings provides the backdrop for this memorial to the over 60 protesters killed, including 12-year-old Kennedy Onyango, when police opened fire on unarmed youth who were attempting to march to Parliament. The stark division created by the lightning bolts symbolizes the violent state response that transformed Kenya's largest youth-led protest movement into a national tragedy, with hundreds injured and dozens disappeared while no officers were held accountable.
June 25th 🇰🇪 💔
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Political cartoon commemorating the June 25, 2024 Gen Z protests in Nairobi, Kenya. In the center, a young Kenyan activist in emerald green shirt and navy blue pants stands with arms outstretched in a commanding gesture, addressing a large crowd of fellow Generation Z demonstrators who had gathered to voice their grievances against punitive taxation. The crowd consists of dozens of young Kenyans in various colored clothing including red hoodies, purple shirts, and dark clothing, assembled in what appears to be a public plaza in Nairobi with yellow and white government buildings. The urban setting features Nairobi's distinctive architecture: yellow high-rise buildings on the left, blue glass skyscrapers on the right, and orange/yellow mid-rise buildings in the background. A traffic light is visible in the foreground showing red, yellow, and green lights - the colors of Kenya's flag. Red and green lightning bolt graphics cut diagonally across the composition, symbolically foreshadowing the violence that would soon erupt when police opened fire on these peaceful protesters attempting to march to Parliament. Palm trees and blue sky complete the East African urban setting. The scene captures a pivotal moment of youth leadership and civic engagement before this demonstration turned tragic, resulting in over 60 deaths including 12-year-old Kennedy Onyango and many other young Kenyans whose names are now remembered as martyrs of the movement.
"You can't be about the work of wellbeing unless you're about the work of building the world in which that wellbeing is possible."
- Tasha Golden
June 25th 🇰🇪 💔
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