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Music festival starts in high gear in Mombasa

Kisumu Kings and Queens Academy pupils perform an own composition Western singing. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

MOMBASA, KENYA: The 88th edition of the Kenya Music Festival started Monday with a presentation from Booker Academy pupils in which they plead that adults must give them time to play.

"Let me play and sing and dance, show me where the beads are, where is the ball and the rope so I may jump," went parts of the singing from Booker Academy.

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