Youthquake: Why Africa’s Youth Must Rise and Topple The Older Generation Now..

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There’s something in the air.

Much earlier this year, we saw Kenyans take to the street to force the resignation of their supremely incompetent leader — William Ruto.

The Kenyan riot police were out in full force and images of them shooting protesters in the head went viral several times over across the entire world.

And last week it was young people from Madagascar, who took to the streets to protest the uselessness of their political class and yesterday it was the turn of teenage Moroccans demanding urgent changes to their health and educational system.

The events in Agadir and Rabat came as a bit of surprise, owing to the fact that Morocco has always been shielded from the worst of geopolitical upheavals, which has engulfed its neighbours — Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya — in recent times and the fact that it is also a constitutional monarchy.

But young Moroccans seem to have paid scant attention to history.

Buoyed by events around the world and much closer to home, these folks decided to take matters to hand and the country which is poised to host the African Nations football tournament in December is deeply embarrassed by the turn of events.