The New Statesman
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Kenya and Bangladesh have experienced a summer of unrest, ostensibly in opposition to a new finance law.
Kenya has gone from a rural, tribal-based society to a much more complex and middle-class one.
Both are developing the vigorous middle class that is a prerequisite for democracy.
But success only leads to new patterns of instability, including riots and revolutions.
Kenya ’s youth-led revolt was not over tribal or ethnic dispute but a tax hike that threatened to increase the price of basic goods.
In Bangladesh , Sheikh Hasina who had been in office for two decades was forced from power in early August because of repression, democratic backsliding and curbing of media freedom.
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