Governance

In recent years, the youth in Kenya have been taking on more active roles in the country’s governance. However, their involvement in governance has a complicated history, dating back to the pre-colonial era. During that time, young people were already participating in traditional community decision-making structures. However, the British colonial government forbade young people from

The Constitution of Kenya 2010 defines youth as any individual between 18 and 35 years in age. Equally, many of the country’s different youth development programmes have the same categorization. According to this categorization, youth constitute more than a third of the entire population, while nearly 80 per cent of Kenyans are less than 35

Africa is the most youthful continent in the world with significant potential. With this great potential, the time has come for bold and accelerated action towards achieving the goals set within the vision of Agenda 2063.Investing in our youth will result in exponential gains which will break inter generational poverty and address the inequalities which

It is a beautiful time to be alive, or is it?! Sometimes I look at how far we have come as a nation and secretly, I grin. I mean, gone are the days when gerontological leaders could tell the ‘young’ aspiring leaders they will be the leaders of tomorrow. Tomorrow came! Young people are currently