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Nairobi \u2014 The Kenyan government came under fire on Thursday for stifling creativity after orchestrating the suppression of the controversial play Echoes of War<\/em> by Butere Girls High School at the 2025 National Drama Festival in Nakuru.<\/p>\n What began as a disruption of the play’s performance quickly escalated into a national outcry, with Kenyans taking to social media to accuse President William Ruto’s administration of yet another act of repression.<\/p>\n The play, written by former Kakamega Senator…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The Kenyan government came under fire on Thursday for stifling creativity after orchestrating the suppression of the controversial play Echoes of War by Butere Girls High School at the 2025 National Drama Festival in Nakuru. What began as a disruption of the play’s performance quickly escalated into a national outcry, with Kenyans taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9626,15871,4688,430,257,7543,10834,12640,254,6618],"class_list":["post-195823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deepens","tag-echoes","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-play","tag-repression","tag-rutos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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