Magoso primary school entertaining visitors

Magoso Music Team

Music is one of our favourite activities in Magoso School. We train our pupils on how to play different traditional and modern instruments according to their interests. As part of our mission , the school runs this program to combat anxiety and help the children overcome their experiences of violence. The music and dance sessions , held every morning , are the closest most Kenyans come to formalized music therapy. In Magoso, budding musicians are gaining the skills they need to push the music therapy agenda when they leave school. Magoso's musical students are known across Kenya .

Love of music

Music has had a special place in Kenyan culture for centuries, even employed as a therapeutical mean, but with the passing of time this tradition has almost been lost. Magoso school since 1998 has been trying to bring it back to life, helping those going through difficult times with music, acting and poetry classes. Recently The Guardian newspaper has published an article telling the stories of some former Magoso pupils, most of whom had seen their lives radically changed thanks to music, but also thanks to an incredible woman, Lilian Wangala, the school’s founder.