Kenya is once again peaceful, its young people are not loosening their grip against this government, but are turning their initial anger over the financial bill and the responses that did not live up to their expectations, into a state of attention and 'monitoring' of the new moves promised by President William Ruto, first and foremost the fight against corruption among the politicians in his government and in general among parliamentarians.
Yesterday, the country spent a quiet Sunday, despite certain warnings on social networks predicting more demonstrations that were not exclusively peaceful.
In fact, the most striking and aggregative event was staged in the capital Nairobi's central Uhuru Park. Frontline Generation Z activists, with blogger Boniface Mwangi in the lead, organised an afternoon concert that brought together several thousand young people, who danced and partied, without forgetting that they had gathered to commemorate the 41 victims of the anti-government protests of the previous weeks.

Crosses were planted in the grass with their names, chanted from the stage by each of the artists who performed, including some of the country's most famous rappers, from Kaligraph Jones to Juliani, with a performance by a 'veteran' of social song, Eric Wainaina, author of the anthem 'Daima mimi Kenya', sung at the top of his voice by the thousands of young people. A 'first of May' in Nairobi, a springtime in a nation that never had one.

An atmosphere far removed from the riots of the protests that degenerated into violence due to a number of concomitant causes, including the inadequate police response and the infiltration among the demonstrators of thugs and thugs who took advantage of the situation to loot shops and engage in clashes with the police, with stones and sticks. All this led to retaliation, punitive actions and 272 arrests across the country. At the same time, they convinced Ruto to choose the path of dialogue and some changes to the decisions taken by his ministers. Now a new season opens, made up of responses to the demands of the youth who, let us not forget, represent eighty per cent of Kenya and its workforce, as well as its future. Generation Z expects a government reshuffle, with some ministers on the grill for their unexplained wealth (or rather, explicable embezzlements), significant cuts in unnecessary expenditure (already promised by Ruto the closure of the offices of the First Lady, Vice-President Gachagua's First Lady and her daughter). On the other hand, there will have to accept further cuts in public spending, price increases to replace the cancelled taxes, and new loans that will bring inflation and subservience to the big international creditors.

Not an easy situation that will have to be explained to the people, showing goodwill and honesty.
The important thing, however, is for the country to become calm again and to welcome the tourism that is about to pour onto the beaches and into the savannah and that can bring cash and remittances that can help the state's coffers and the détente between its officials and the young wave that would like its head.