An interview at school
From our correspondent in Lomé Music lessons have been given by Togboga Komla Likem, the technical and educational director during the academic year. About 8 pupils from 5th and 6th grades have followed weekly lessons of music theory on Wednesday and Friday afternoons at the Protestant College. For the pupils, it is not easy to pay the 2000 CFA Francs (about 3€). Meanwhile, this amount hardly covers the actual costs (travelling expenses of the teacher twice a week, photocopies … Because one teacher only is available and we have no extra pedagogic materials, we cannot enlarge our offer: a larger variety of music instruments and different levels of practice. Moreover, pupils rarely own their own instruments: the music school must be able to lend them one. Musique-Evenements in Togo needs to reinforce its financial, human and communication means
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