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Why Kenya's Gen Z protests take us back to Europe in early 16th Century

Church spires in Hamburg, Germany. [XN Iraki, Standard]

Kenya feels like Europe in the early 1500s when three forces conspired to change the continent; renaissance, reformation and Industrial Revolution.

The exact dates for these events are less important compared with the changes they brought, some which reverberate to this day.

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