It's wrong for the government to stifle students’ creativity
A crowd escort a school bus ferrying Butere Girls’ students from Melvin Jones Academy in Nakuru on April 10, 2025. The learners refused to perform the ‘Echoes of War’ play in the ongoing National Drama and Film Festivals.
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We shouldn’t stifle students’ creativity, instead we must ensure their safety.
it’s astonishing to still find mud-walled houses in the Majengo area at Gikomba.
Drama irony • This year’s Kenya National Drama and Film Festival, university don XN Iraki notes, “is itself a drama, going by the intrigues around Butere Girls School, where First Lady Rachel Ruto schooled”. He poses: “How can we censor a play and still demand creativity from our children? How come there is never such drama in the science and engineering congress?” His contact is [email protected].
