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Sarafina: Apartheid play draws parallel with Kenya's GenZ protests fuelled by the new colonisers
Sarafina being tortured by police officers during Sarafina’s triumphant return to the stage play performed by Nairobi Performing Arts Studio at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on August 17, 2024.
The gods of theatre had their gaze on the crew and cast of Nairobi Performing Arts Studio (NPAS) for their third run at Sarafina musical at Kenya National Theatre.
The show is about a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on June 16, 1976, to protest the introduction of Afrikaans, considered by many blacks as the "language of the oppressor", as the medium of instruction in schools.