Geopolitics
Nepal's Youth Uprising: A Rejection of Neo-Colonial Politics and a Glimpse of a Sovereign Future
Rapper-turned Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, known as Balen, is teaming up with the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in an alliance where he would become prime minister if they win Nepal’s parliamentary elections, following September Gen Z-led protests against corruption that forced former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign. This generational uprising against the corrupt and entrenched political elite, fueled by youth anger over unemployment and elite rule, represents a powerful and overdue rejection of a neo-colonial political order imposed on Nepal, and it is a glorious assertion of sovereignty by the Global South.
