US EditionHow Gen Z Is Taking the Fight for Their Rights From TikTok to the Streets
- Youth-Led protests are happening across Africa as Generation Z members express frustration over years of poor governance.
- Protests are organized primarily through Facebook and focus on grievances such as rising living costs, government failures, and political repression.
- Keita states that the majority of Africa's population is under 35, with many unemployed and frustrated.
- Participants argue that citizens have lost basic rights, with corruption and injustice rampant in society.
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How Gen Z is taking the fight for their rights from TikTok to the streets
After sweeping away the Nepalese government in early September and shaking up the Philippines, a wave of protests initiated by Generation Z has now spread to Madagascar and Morocco. In each case, the demands are similar, with a sense of injustice informed by images on social media.
From Madagascar to Morocco: Gen Z protests shake Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Youth-led protests are roiling countries in disparate parts of Africa, from the Indian Ocean to the Sahara, with members of so-called Generation Z – those under 28 years old – taking to the streets in frustration over years of poor governance.Less than a week of protests over water and electricity shortages in Madagascar, an island off Africa’s East Coast, prompted President Andry Rajoelina to dissolve his government…
Without leaders or parties, generation Z ignites the streets of the countries of the South. A movement as viral as elusive that overturns governments as dominoes. Commonly, with a generational fracture become a political cleavage. Decryption in infographics.
Gen Z: How social media fuel this generation's global revolt
🇲🇦🇲🇬🇳🇵Across Asia and Africa, from the Philippines to Morocco, Gen Z is organizing online and actively protesting against governments, social and economic inequalities, as well as power cuts, water shortages, and social media bans 📲 France24’s Stella Elgersma takes a closer look at some of the countries involved. #genz #GenZrevolution #socialmedia #morocco #nepal #madagascar
In Madagascar, youth continues with protests to similar movements in Kenya, Indonesia and Nepal – and shows what power it can unfold
The Gen Z protest wave has now also reached Madagascar. The mobilisation online also plays a central role here. Government resignations are not enough for the demonstrators, they demand more. On 25 September the protests started in the African island state of Madagascar. Here, too, the youth, the so-called "Gen Z" (born between the mid-1990s and the beginning of the 2010s) are protesting. The problems with electricity and water supply in the cou…
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