Mnarani Primary School is situated within Mnarani Village Kilifi sixty kilometres North of Mombasa. The late D. Wilson, a third generation Kenyan farmer of British origin who settled in Kilifi, founded it in 1969.
	D Wilson the grandson of F.O'B Wilson who settled in Kenya in 1910 to farm ostriches, but later turned to dairying.
He started the school in response to educational needs of the many local children in the area, as there was no other primary school serving the community. His son Christopher Wilson is the Chairman of the current Schools Development Committee. The school has since grown  to an enrolment of over 1200 children today.