Parliament of Kenya
Neoclassical legislature with a Big Ben-style clock tower, breached and partly burned by protesters in twenty twenty-four.
This guide to the Parliament of Kenya centers on June 25, 2024, when lawmakers had just voted through a deeply unpopular tax bill and fled the chamber through underground tunnels as thousands of young protesters broke through the police line outside. It follows what those mostly young, largely online-organized Kenyans did once they got inside a building few Commonwealth parliaments have ever seen breached, and the object that went missing in the chaos without which parliament cannot legally sit. It also traces the clock tower above you back to around 1954, when it was built to echo Big Ben and Westminster as a colonial statement of lawful authority. Listen for how that symbolism held for seventy years before this one afternoon.
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