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National festival celebrates prowess in song, verse and dance

Mombasa city was abuzz with tourists in the first half of August. Only that the more than 124,000 tourists were not your ordinary type from Europe and other far-flung countries who bring in the dollar.

They were school and college musicians and poets coming to showcase the depth and breadth that is the Kenyan art and culture scene at the 88th edition of the Kenya Music Festival (KMF).

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