Burning issues: Why teenagers are protesting

Detectives investigating the course of fire at Sigalame boys high school in Funyula in Busia county when the school dormitory was set ablaze by an unknown arsonist. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

In the 1992 movie, Sarafina!, shot in South Africa, a group of fired-up students, considered radicalised by the colonial regime, set a classroom ablaze.

The students are convinced that this form of protestation, seen as ignoble by the administration and its sympathisers but sagacious by the learners, will earn them and their country freedom.