In Kenya, as they say, you do not need to set an alarm in order to wake up, your problems will just wake you up.
For unemployed youths still looking for a source of living, the problem is not even looking for a job, the difficulties they go through will looking for the jobs.
In a research done by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in March 2018, about 7 million Kenyans are not employed and about 1.4 million from the figure are desperately looking for employment.
The survey also pointed out that about 19 million Kenyans are in active labour force, despite the fact that most of those employed are in low and poor paying job cadres.
Below are some of expressions of frustrations from Kenyans
Some people have jobs and when you talk about Joblessness they think it's a Joke. People out here been jobless like forever. You start a Business it flops. You have loans to pay like HELB and yet it's a Nightmare out here. #JoblessKE
— Dhahabu Kenya (@dhahabumedia) August 16, 2018
Am 20yrs but they need a 15yrs experience #JoblessKe
— wa Mureithi (@mureithi_jeremy) August 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/brown_wycliffe/status/1030120460888035329
https://twitter.com/cwyyell/status/1030124746736721920
https://twitter.com/BNjathaH/status/1030120860584161280
https://twitter.com/CrisNathelly/status/1030125282508894208
Being depressed while you are unemployed is the worst. If you are also socially isolated or being excluded from social contact then you have just about the worst situation, job searching itself can kill anybody!!!
#JoblessKE
— Unemployed Professor (@WRadigo) August 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/MuriukiHillary/status/1030123855539515392
https://twitter.com/esther_omari/status/1030121586278518785
