From Iran International warning that Iran may be entering an era of "constant unrest", to analysis in the Council on Foreign Relations on youth-driven political shifts in Bangladesh and Nepal, to Radio France International highlighting Africa's growing generational divide, the pattern is unmistakable: Gen Z is reshaping politics, and not quietly. Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to Ayo Kimathi, US-based lecturer and Pan-African political analyst, whose work consistently interrogates sovereignty, state legitimacy, and what he has previously described as the "unfinished project of political independence" in the Global South