The Gen Z protests in Kenya begun in June and, according to posters seen on social media, are set to continue on 8th August. Nane is the Swahili word for the number eight so the upcoming protests have been dubbed "Nane Nane". It has been a rollercoaster ride, with high highs (the contentious finance bill that was the genesis of all this was withdrawn) and low lows (lives were lost).

Continuing with my adventure of creating black out poems from The Matrix screenplay, I perused the next pages, page 8 and 9, and came up with a found poem that I think captures the zeitgeist of this period in Kenya.

I am using the March 1998 draft of the screenplay. On page 8, Agent Smith and Agent Jones talk. On page 9, we are introduced to Neo. Nick Steinberg notes that "In the first 45 minutes or so of The Matrix, Keanu Reeves has 80 lines, 44 of which are questions. This means that over half of his dialogue is just asking people things, which averages to roughly one question per minute." The Kenyan Gen Zs are definitely asking a lot of questions, questions that some people of the preceding generations have outright asked but have been ignored or worse, have been ostracized for daring to question the status quo, or questions that they have thought of asking but did not dare to ask for fear of retribution.

brick wall
frustration
duck-taped
into
an autopsied corpse.

Wake up.