The Kenyan Finance Bill 2024 protests demonstrate the incredible potential of nonviolent resistance tactics involving protest and social media. Young people were able to mobilize thousands to the streets, reach over 750 million via social media, and force President Ruto into withdrawing the bill in just a short period of time in June 2024. Despite immense pushback from Kenyan authorities, young Kenyans have successfully fought their way into having a seat at the table.
Africa
Amazigh Nonviolence: Language, Land, and Blood
The indigenous Amazigh people of North Africa have preserved their language and culture through centuries of pressure to assimilate. They fight for linguistic rights and land rights across the region known as Tamazgha.
Kwame Nkrumah: Wrestling with Nonviolence
Nkrumah believed that Ghana’s fate was intertwined with that of all Africans. He famously said that “the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.”
How Women Ended Liberia’s Civil War: Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace
By 2003, the Liberian Civil War had been raging for 14 years, over 200,000 people had died and one in three people had been displaced. Originally founded in 1822, Liberia began as a colony for emancipated American slaves.
The Revolutionary Art of the Arab Spring
As the Arab Spring era states began to realize the scope of the uprisings they faced, they cracked down on physical demonstrations and censored the voices of the opposition in news and media… The arts provided a way to express dissent and build community without explicitly criticizing the regime.
With One Voice: Sudan’s Nonviolent Civil Society on the Rise
Since the start of the April conflict, resistance groups have increasingly taken to mutual aid, organizing relief for Sudanese people in need. What began as a movement centered around street protest has now morphed into one of the few forces protecting the Sudanese people.
Uncovering Apartheid: The Conclusion
This article is the third of a three-part series that dives deep into the nearly five decades of Apartheid in South Africa and the movements of non-violence that impacted it. If you have not already read the first two articles, I suggest exiting this article and doing so as it will provide additional context and clarity.
Uncovering Apartheid: The Defiance
This article is the second of a three-part series that dives deep into the nearly five decades of Apartheid in South Africa and the movements of non-violence that impacted it. If you have not already read the first article, I suggest exiting this article and doing so, as it will provide additional context and clarity.
Uncovering Apartheid: Beginnings
This article is the first of a three-part series that dives deep into the nearly five decades of Apartheid in South Africa and the movements of non-violence that impacted it.
#EndSARS PROTEST: How Nonviolent Movement Became Violent
In Nigeria, what began as a peaceful protest by a motley of interest groups against key issues ranging from the rising unemployment and inflation, inequitable distribution of the palliative, increasing insecurity, and the excesses of officials of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in some part of the country snowballed into violence after the police fired tear gas and live bullets to disperse protesters.