Sarafina:The Musical
What better way to celebrate africanism then by holding a musical named SARAFINA.The story is based on a young south african lady named Sarafina who was an activist in her school.She influenced her classmates to fight for their rights during apartheid.During this time Nelson Mandela was in prison and there was alot of violence in Soweto,his hometown.We got to see what really transpired in this part of Africa as the cast sang and danced to the best of their abilities. The musical play which has been running for the past one week at Kenya National Theatre,has had sold out shows as the cast includes Brenda Wairimu,Mkamzee Mwatela,Gilad Millo,Patrick Oketch and Hellen Mtawali.Directed by Stuart Nash,this musical play has been done by the Nairobi Perfoming Arts Studio group. Based on the original movie,we get to see a different side of Sarafina,that is cheerful yet strong in character.If you’ve watched Sarafina before,you’ll remember songs like ‘Pata Pata”,”Our Father”,”Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow” and so on that add flavour to this play with afew Kenyan jokes thrown in here and there to make it interesting and relatable.