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Butere Girls High School students declined to perform the controversial Echoes of War play during the 63rd edition of the Kenya National Drama and Film Festival in Nakuru, on April 10, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
The arts are meant to entertain, inform and educate. This is what drama and other forms of creative arts have done for eons. Never have they danced to the authorities or been whimsical to nefarious sections of the society. What we should thus do is to make a self-introspection whenever found on the wrong side by the arts.
Unfortunately, the world due to 'Trumpism', has adopted an arc of authoritarianism to any divergent views. This is threatening democratic practices across the globe. Today in Africa and many parts of the world, repression has emerged as the cup upon which we drink from the altar of power. This notwithstanding the fact that the 4th industrial revolution has heralded a free flow of information which makes the current human species, more informed and aggressive in challenging societal ills.
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