Kenya
Kenya is a large country whose easter half is a broad plateau with arid and semi-arid lands. The north and western half have several mountain systems, which are split by the Rift Valley. Thirty-eight million people live in Kenya, 1.3 of whom live in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city. Most of the population lives in the western half of the country, and the north-east is still home to many nomadic herding communities. Kenya has three dominant ethnic communities, the Kikuyu, the Luhya, and the Luo. Kenya was colonized by the British in 1888. They achieved their independence in 1963, where a one-party state was established and run by the Kenya African National Union (KANU). The first president was a Kikuyu, Jomo Kenyatta, who in 1978 died in office and was succeeded by a Kalenjin, Danieal Arap Moi. Moi made KANU the sole legal party in 1982, which remained the case in 1992 when he was forced into a multiparty system; Moi won the following elections in 1992 and 1997. Moi's final years of power were full of corruption, poverty, and violence. In 2002 a new president and party took control, Emilio Mwai Kibaki and his National Rainbow Coalition. In 2007 Kibaki won by a narrow victory over Kenya's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), with the ODM claiming fraud and rioting and ethnic cleansing across Kenya ensued, leaving 600 people dead and 250,000 displaced in tribal areas. In 2008 the Kibaki agreed to share power with Odinga as prime minister. They continued in power through 2013.
DATA VISUALIZATIONS
PROTESTS
Kenya-July-2018
Kisumu, Kisumu Girls High School
Students went on rampage to protest mismanagement by the school administration. (Primary Source)
Kenya-October-2017
Meru, Meru University
Students protest fee increment. It began as an online campaign, but following a post urging students to turn out it turned into physical action. (Primary Source)
Kenya-October-2015
Mombasa, Technical University of Mombasa
Students riot in protest of the increase in tuition fees. (Primary Source)
Kenya-March-2017
Kisumu, Maseno School
Students riot in protest of the interdiction of the principal. (Primary Source)
Kenya-November-2017
Mombasa, Technical University of Mombasa
Lecturers go on strike to demand higher pay. (Primary Source)
Kenya-November-2017
Nakuru, Laikipia University
Students protested the death of a student in a hit-and-run. (Primary Source)
Kenya-October-2016
Meru, Meru University of Science and Technology
Students protested the killing of a student leader by a police officer. (Primary Source)
Kenya-May-2018
Isiolo, Isiolo Boys High School
Student clashes led to property damage in the school, and the arrest of 28 students. (Primary Source)
Kenya-June-2018
Murang’a, Kiunyu Girls High School
Most students stormed out of the campus in the middle of the night for unknown reasons. (Primary Source)
Kenya-July-2018
Ng’iya, Ng'iya girls’ high school
Students go on rampage to protest mistreatment by the boarding mistress. (Primary Source)
Kenya-March-2018
Kibabii, St Mary’s High School
Students protest the appointment of a new principal. (Primary Source)
Kenya-July-2018
Saiya, Maranda Boys High School
Students protest stringent rules at the school, leading to an indefinite closure. (Primary Source)
Kenya-March-2016
Bungoma, Kibabii University
The university was closed after disruption of lectures by various groups of students who were campaigning for various positions in the students’ governing council. (Primary Source)
Kenya-June-2018
Isiolo, Isiolo Barracks Secondary School
Students protested the transfer of the headteacher. (Primary Source)
Kenya-January-2015
Lang’ata, Lang’ata Road Primary School
Students, parents, and other members of community protested the acquisition of their school’s land - particularly the playground by private developers. (Primary Source)
Kenya-December-2017
Eldoret, University of Eldoret
Engineering students boycott classes over accreditation issues. (Primary Source)
Kenya-May-2018
West Pokot, Ortum Boys' High School
Students go on rampage in demand of assistance to cheat in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations. (Primary Source)
Kenya-June-2017
Thika, Mount Kenya University
Students staged a peaceful protest over mushrooming business structures along General Kago Road near their institution arguing that they were a security risk and a source of illicit drugs and alcohol. (Primary Source)
Kenya-October-2017
Thika, Mount Kenya University
Students went on rampage for unknown reasons, leading to a school closure. (Primary Source)
Kenya-March-2018
Rongai, Anthinai Day Secondary School
Students protested the death of a student, who drowned in a river near the school. During the protest students threatened to burn down the school. (Primary Source)
Kenya-June-2017
Thika, Mang'u High School
Students staged a peaceful walk out to protest against ‘victimisation and preferential treatment’ by the administration. (Primary Source)
Kenya-April-2018
Garissa, Garissa High School
Students protest encroachment of school land. (Primary Source)
Kenya-September-2011
, Kenya National Union of Teachers
Public school teachers begin strike to pressure the government into giving in the their long list of demands, which includes employing 28,000 new teachers. (Primary Source)
Kenya-June-2013
, Kenya National Union of Teachers
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) called a strike to pressure the government into honoring a 1997 payment agreement. (Primary Source)
Kenya-January-2015
, Kenya National Union of Teachers
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) organized a strike in order to demand a 300% pay raise. (Primary Source)
Kenya-November-2011
, Egerton University,Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
Two of Kenya's seven public universities closed, as university lecturers embarked on a strike. (Primary Source)
Kenya-December-2013
Nairobi, University of Nairobi
Students riot to protest the death of two students, causing a school closure. (Primary Source)
Kenya-March-2018
, University Academic Staff Union
Lecturers strike to demand higher pay. (Primary Source)
Kenya-January-2017
, Kenya University
Lecturers at Kenya’s public universities, under the University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and the Kenya University Staff Union (KASU) strike to demand higher pay. (Primary Source)
Kenya-September-2015
, Kenya National Union of Teachers
Teachers nationwide embark on strike, and demonstrations to demand 50-60% pay raise they were promised. (Primary Source)
Kenya-November-2017
, University Academic Staff Union
Lecturers strike to demand higher pay, following a nurses' strike. (Primary Source)
Kenya-February-2016
Tharaka Nithi, Chuka University
Students riot in protest of the student council elections. (Primary Source)
Kenya-January-2018
Nairobi, Kenyatta University
Students riot in retaliation of lecturers' strike. (Primary Source)
Kenya-October-2011
Nairobi, Kenya Polytechnic
Students organized a demonstration to protest the school administration's alleged rigging of the students' elections. (Primary Source)
Kenya-January-2018
Nairobi, Jamhuri High School
Disagreements between Christian and Muslim students in the school caused unrest. (Primary Source)
Kenya-April-2018
Nairobi, Daystar University
Students staged a protest against the University Senate to demand publication of an audit report. (Primary Source)
Kenya-April-2018
Nairobi, University of Nairobi
Students demonstrate against the election of student union leaders, claiming they were imposed by the administration. (Primary Source)
Kenya-March-2009
Nairobi, University of Nairobi and Kenya Polytechnic
Students protest alleged police killings urging the chief of police to resign. (Primary Source)
Kenya-October-2017
Nairobi, University of Nairobi
Students protest against the arrest of an opposition lawmaker. (Primary Source)
Kenya-April-2016
Nairobi, University of Nairobi
Students protested the re-election of Babu Owino as their union leader. It was organized by the losing candidate. (Primary Source)
Kenya-June-2018
Nairobi, Moi Girls' School
Parents protest incidences of rape and abuse on students. (Primary Source)
Kenya-January-2018
Nairobi, Jamhuri High School
Students broke out into a riot after a few days of tension between the student body and school administration. The actual cause of the riot is not known. (Primary Source)
Kenya-November-2017
Nairobi, Daystar University
Students boycott classes and stage demonstration to protest poor school conditions and a tuition increase. (Primary Source)