Since the Covid pandemic, people have also taken to the streets in Ghana, Angola, Malawi and Senegal. While each protest has had unique drivers, they have some things in common - booming young populations struggling with high inflation, a lack of good jobs and a political class they don't trust.
"Here in Kenya, if you look at these protests, actually, they were led by educated people. But most of them [were] jobless," said Anthony Kamande, an inequality researcher at Oxfam who is based in Nairobi.
Africa is a young continent 70% of the population is under the age of 30, according to the UN. Its population is expected to almost double in 30 years, to 2.2 billion.
Gen Z and millennial Africans are better educated than the generations before them. Of 22 countries that provided data to Unesco for 2011 to 2021, the proportion of students going on to higher education fell in only three.
However, more than 10 million people enter the workforce a year in sub-Saharan Africa, vying for just 3m jobs, the World Bank says.
Many who don't get formal work hustle in the badly paid and risky informal sector. Unemployment was ranked as the most important problem by 18- to 35-year-olds surveyed by the pan-African survey organisation Afrobarometer.
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