The 2012 Kenya Drama Festivals Wrap Up

The best of the National Schools and Colleges Drama festivals was paraded at Kakamega High School as the 2012 edition came to a spectacular end yesterday.

There were a variety of plays that captured the attention of the audience and other competitors including Kennedy Buhere’s Kenya Institute of Mass Communication County Edition 411 play which was basically about the role of counties in the future of the country.
The recent discovery of oil in Turkana was also featured as a dramatized act as another, Bamba 50, was a creative depiction of the 2008 post-election violence in fascinating imagery and reflective dialogue.
Chogoria Girls from Eastern made history at the festival when their film, A Time to Cry, was the first ever to be screened at the national Gala event. 

Plagiarism however reared its ugly head at the drama festivals with two schools, Mukumu Girls from Western and Chogoria Boys from Eastern, presenting scripts and plays that were identical.
The plays, ‘Heaven’ by Cleophas Malalah and ‘The Antidote’ by Allan Chahasi were clearly similar if not the same, as the Festival chairman noted that both were the same ‘word for word’.
Nevertheless, the festival ended on a successful note with the Minister for Education, Hon. Mutula Kilonzo, gracing the galas.

Here is the COMPLETE list of winners at the 2012 Kenya Drama Festivals:

Overall winning Provinces
1. Nairobi province
2. Central Province
3. Rift valley Province
4. Coast province
5. Western Province
6. Eastern province
7. Nyanza Province
8. North Eastern Province

Special Awards

1. Alliance girls solo verse – cash awards and laptop
2. Riara play – Trip to Rwanda, cash, 
3. Mukuru Solo – Cash
4. Kamusinga Narrative – cash laptops
5. Karima Girls Dance – Cash, laptop

Other Special Awards: Secondary Schools

1. Most Prolific Sec school: Chavakali High School
2. Most Disciplined school: Gikumeni (Eastern)
3. Best Christian play Kisumu Girls
4. Best Item on HIV Mukumu Girls
5. Best Item on Social ills Kubende Chavakali Boys
6. Best item on child abuse: Light Academy
7. Best on child labour Malindi
8. Best on IT and use of xos Maseno School
9. Best on drug abuse Menengai
10. Best on fight against crime Kubende Chavakali
11. Millenium Development Goals Kadika Girls
12. Most Talented Performer: Julian Mwangi Alliance girls
13. Best perfoming artist: 1. Female Riara springs 2. Male A boy from Malindi High
14. Best Actor:Malindi boys, Menengai’s Felix odhiambo
15. Best Actress: 2 girls from Riara and Brita Achieng of Menengai
16. Overall best student Juliana mwangi Alliance
17. Best French actor 1. Boy from Kakamega High
18. Best French Actress Lavender Amunga Sacho High

Primary School Category:
PLAYS
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Rift Valley)
2. Booker Academy (Western)
3. Kenyakine Boys (Eastern)
DANCES:
1. Naikara primary (Rift valley) Ole polos express
2. St. Agustine (Coast) Kerembo
3. Moi Primary (Central) Chiku
Choral:
1. Bonanza Academy (Eastern)
2. Spring Board Primary (Western)
3. Carol Academy (R/ valley)
Narrative:

1. Lugulu Boarding (Western)

Secondary School Category:

PLAY

1. Riara springs Nairobi province(Gold less)
2.Malindi Boys Coast province (Operation Linda Utu)
3. Menegai High school
CHORAL

1. Light Academy (Nairobi)
2. Bungoma High School (Western)
NARRATIVES:

1. Kijabe High School (Central)
2. Ole Kejuado (Rift Valley)
Solo

1. Alliance Girls (Central)
2. Kaptagat High (Rift valley)
French Play

1. Lubinu High
2. Kakamega high

Universities Category: 
Plays:
1. Kenyatta university (Nairobi)
2. KEMU Nairobi Campus (Nairobi)
3. Mombasa Poly (Nairobi)
Dance:
1. Kenya Poly University (Nairobi)
2. Kenyatta University (Nairobi)
3. Mt. Kenya University Eldoret (R/ Valley)
Narratives:
1. Kenyatta University
2. Kenya poly university
3. Masinde Muliro University
Chorals:
1. Kenya Poly University
2. Kisii University
3. Mombasa Poly University
Solo:
1. Kenyatta University (Nairobi)
2. Kenya Poly University (Nairobi)
3. Masinde Muliro (Nairobi)