Posted: July 22, 2025 | Last updated: July 22, 2025 Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi sings while holding a Kenyan flag in the dock of the Kahawa court in Kiambu, Kenya, on Monday 21 July 2025.

He stopped flicking through the bracelets and paused, his hand mid-air holding a string of beads in red, green, white and black—the colors of the Kenyan flag. “Why?” he asked.