Influence of Social Movements in the Democratization Process in Africa

This article unpacked the influence of social inequalities on Social economic inequality and political governance in Africa, Kenya. The results of the study showed that lack of access to asset ownership, access to utilities and basic social services, education and occupation leads to political instability, corruption and poor economic growth of Kenya. To address these, the government of Kenya has decentralized government operations and services delivery, Implemented the social protection programs, Free primary education policy, women empowerment programs, Last mile connectivity (green energy). The challenges faced by the government were; Lack of monitoring and evaluation framework to determine the effectiveness of the policies, Under funding of the most of the critical institutions such as Education that was aimed at bridging the high literacy gap amongst community members in most of the societies, Poor infrastructures hindered the growth of the counties in terms of revenue collections and quality services provision and Poor planning in the department of economic and planning in most of counties has made it hard for the government to disburse county allocation equitably.