So thanks to a really fantastic friend of mine, I got to watch Sarafina the play, directed by Stuart Nash starring Mkamzee Mwatela, Helen Mtawali and Martin Githinji

I incredibly enjoyed the theatre experience but was disappointed by the play's counter-revolutionary leanings particularly in it's focus on racism and tribalism at the expense of a genuine critique of power and the various form of oppression.

Sarafina should have been a radical, revolutionary, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist call for social justice through mass movements I don't believe it lived up to that.