Opposition politics in Africa has mutated into a lucrative performance — donor-fed, optics-obsessed and ideologically hollow.  

Gen Z has detonated a new political grammar across Africa, rewriting the language of resistance with smartphones instead of rifles, hashtags instead of slogans, livestreams instead of leaflets.  

Socially and culturally, they fund schools, clinics and rural projects, preserve Zimbabwean identity in foreign lands, and inject fresh perspectives on democracy and justice through their youth.

2025 will not be remembered as the year of renewal, but as a year of broken contracts when Africa’s political elite shredded the covenant between citizens and leadership,

Youth-led political contracts are going to be at the forefront of this reawakening, and they are not the polite manifestos of student unions or the decorative charters of NGOs.

The contrast is obscene because those who sustain Zimbabwe are denied recognition, while those who steer it towards collapse are celebrated.

By 2028, Generation Z will constitute the majority of Africa’s electorate, reshaping the continent’s political landscape with priorities far removed from liberation nostalgia.