A funeral procession weaves by means of the center of one among Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods.
Because it passes, increasingly more younger males take part.
“There isn’t any god however Allah,” they chant across the casket carrying 19-year-old Ibrahim Wanjiku. He was shot twice within the neck whereas protesting.
We noticed him mendacity lifeless on a mattress in his household house lower than 24 hours in the past.
At the moment, we see him held up excessive and commemorated by his neighborhood.
On the cemetery the place he’s being buried, we discover his finest good friend and neighbour Eugene who was protesting with him in central Nairobi on Tuesday.
He says they had been break up up after hours of marching after they had been tear gassed and everybody ran in a unique path.
That was the final time he noticed him.
Eugene, talking on the funeral of his finest good friend Ibrahim Wanjiku
“He disappeared after which the message got here that he was discovered on the mortuary in Nairobi. Now we’re right here, burying our good friend,” Eugene tells us between the graves.
“It’s so unhappy.”
His eyes are moist whereas we converse and he pauses to collect himself in entrance of the older guys from their neighbourhood.
Eugene can be 19 and mentioned that as he noticed his good friend’s physique lowered right into a grave, he knew that it might have been him.
Eugene factors out his good friend, Ibrahim, who was shot, in a video of the protests
The funeral procession in Nairobi
I ask if he’ll exit and protest once more. He seems down with defeat and shakes his head.
“No, no, I believe not. [With] my brother now like that – I cannot.”
‘The younger have misplaced their innocence’
However throughout Kenya, there are younger males keen to march in his place whereas he recovers from the loss.
Extra civil disobedience has been scheduled in what’s being known as “seven days of justice”.
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“The Gen Z have misplaced their innocence. They weren’t there when there was post-election violence and so they have by no means been a part of any tribal violence – so for them they’ve grown up in a really unified and non-tribalist nation,” says veteran activist Boniface Mwangi.
“They got here out within the streets – one nation, one nation, one language and the language is love – asking for a greater nation and so they had been murdered.
“Kenya has modified without end, it’s by no means going to be the identical once more.”