Author: Gokhan Kavak

While the global agenda is focused on the assassination in the United States or the NATO summit, Kenya, one of Africa’s prominent countries politically and economically, has been rocked by anti-government protests over the past few weeks. In fact, what has brought recent protests in Kenya, an African country with a tradition of demonstrations, into the spotlight is the occurrence of deaths during these protests and the discovery of bodies in dumpsites days after the events. Indeed, following the disproportionate intervention of security forces during days-long protests across different regions of the country in June, approximately 40 protesters initially lost…