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Kenya Music Festival showcases nation’s cultural variety

Pupils from St Luke Rabuor Primary School perform a Scottish dance at the ongoing Kenya Music Festival in Kisumu. [Photo: George Orido/Standard]

At one corner of the large compound of Kisumu Boys High School, a group of young boys from Borstal School, Shimo la Tewa Prison, is rehearsing a song on behaviour change that depicts how far they have come in mending their past ways and looking forward to a great future.

Trainer George Gitonga is making sure his knack for detail is not derailed by lack of exercise - that way, the shiny golden trophy will come back to the school’s trophy cabinet by the end of the 89th edition of the annual Kenya Music Festival, currently ongoing in Kisumu.

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