mkenya_alisi
Lister
Or so you assume.
Whoever is in cahoots with the armed forces is God. Akisema kitu inatendeka! Wananchi ni kujidanganya tu ati they have power. They have none!
To some extend you might be right but also on this context quite wrong. Hopefully you have heard of “Jasmine Revolution,” that inspired a wave of similar protests throughout the Middle East and North Africa known as the Arab Spring. The unrest began after Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian, set fire to himself outside a municipal office in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia on December 17. The protests were against corruption, poverty, and political repression. It forced Pres. Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to step down in January 2011. This is a classic example that power belongs to the people