NAKURU, KENYA — The Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa won 14 top three placings including five firsts at the 2011 National Kenya Music Festival held in Nakuru.
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In one category the Academy was placed first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth.
The school was recognized on Kenyan national TV as the top individual school in a competition which featured approximately 85,000 participants from different parts of the nation.
The festival receives entries from nursery schools, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.
Students use different avenues of self expression in celebrating Kenyan cultural heritage through an extravaganza of music, dance and elocution.
Aga Khan Academy singers were directed by Choral Master Mr. Philip Agutu Ouma, an expert in choral music whose singers have won titles at this national festival for the last five years, with strong support and accompaniment by Head of Expressive Arts, Mr Otieno Onyango.
They guided the performers from the Divisional and Provincial competitions to ultimately representing Coast Province at the National Festival.
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