In our recent elections, six million people under 30 did not vote, and the Independent Electoral Commission expressed concern about "youth voter apathy". Judging by my own contacts with the youth, no. They are politically alert -- however what seems to me to have happened is that their involvement in lower level political processes -- often with cadres involved, or political placements -- has convinced them that change does not come through the ballot. It comes through other means -- and they have used those other means. For example, they revolutionised the education system without the ballot.
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