The Pan-African Pentatonic Project: An Exciting mix of music from the Niger and the Nile rocks Nairobi’s crowd

Published: The East African (Nation media) 23 Marc 2019

For the first time (20 March 2019) Nairobians were treated to the sounds of the Sahel flowing with the Nile and as the full moon rose the crowd took to the floor.

The minute Alhousseini Anivolla-Anewal stepped on stage at Nairobi’s Alliance Francaise he held the audience captive. For almost everyone it was the first time to see a Tuareg man dressed in his traditional long flowing robe, pantaloons, slippers and that turbaned head with a veil in the indigo colours that gives the nomadic people of the Sahel the name – the blue people.

Alhousseini Anivolla-Anewal from Niger - Credit Alliance Française (800x533)
Alhousseini Anivolla-Anewal from Niger – Credit Alliance Française

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