In an earlier report, the controversy surrounding Butere Girls High School's play, Echoes of War, at the 2025 Kenya National Drama Festival sparked significant public discourse. Education Cabinet ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Rehearsals were going well. The students at Butere Girls’ High School drama club had sailed through their regional heats and thought they had a good chance of winning this year ...

Kenya's national high-school drama competition ... senator who had penned the production for students from Butere Girls High School, was blocked by police from meeting the young performers for ...

A key semi-final match between St. Joseph's and St. Anthony's in Trans Nzoia ended in chaos with fans storming the field, forcing police to step in and leaving the game's outcome undecided. Musingu ...

The violent suppression of Echoes of War, a political play by Kenyan students from Butere Girls High School, has laid bare the ruthless authoritarianism of President William Ruto’s regime, and ...

Butere Girls was in the limelight in 2013 ... Lady Justice Effie Owuor, Kenya's first female High Court judge; Mary Okello, Kenya's first female bank manager and founder of Makini Schools ...

The Ministry of Education's National Drama Committee has prohibited the Butere Girls High School from performing "Shackles of Doom ... which is protected in both the constitution of Kenya and under ...

BY CHRISPEN SECHERE. Butere Girls High School will benefit from a Sh90 million facelift to ensure it meets national school status. The Government will give it Sh30 million to top up the Sh60 ...