The 36th anniversary of the Saba Saba protests (July 7 1990) invites a sober reckoning with Kenya’s “Second Liberation” – the popular movement that began dismantling Daniel arap Moi’s one-party KANU state and pressed for multiparty democracy.
Saba Saba refuses to fade into the archives; it remains alive in the public imagination, perhaps the only post-Cold War African movement still remembered with such clarity.
Prominent opposition politicians, including Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, and Raila Odinga, called for a massive public rally at the Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi on July 7, 1990, to demand multiparty democracy and an end to human rights abuses.
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