Kenya: Students Face Murder Charges in School Fire

Government-critical narrative

Those responsible must be prosecuted, but Kenya's deadly school fires aren't just unpreventable tragedies — they're the predictable result of a broken system that treats students like prisoners. Overcrowded dorms, poor living conditions, locked exits, corrupt administrators and virtually no outlets for student grievances have produced discontent and fatalities time and again. Until authorities replace authoritarian control with real accountability and safer conditions, the fires will keep coming.