Nomankanjani
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 05/Feb/2011 14:54, 34 days ago
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One of the things that I do miss from home is live music and so far some of the musical peformances that I have seen in Maz have not been great; lip-syncing (i.e. miming) by some guy called Dandy Crazy (roll the r and emphasise the z to say his name!) was one night where we left early. In complete contrast this night of music organised by a fellow VSO volunteer was much fun. Dan is working part-time for a youth organisation called Nomakanjani (http://www.nomakanjani.org/) who were set up to promote messages around HIV and AIDS, health and other community issues through dance, drama and singing. They have been together for four years and have around 25+ performances as part of the group. This event was to help raise funds for a trip to Zanzibar to perform at an Africa musical festival. And they were excellent - wonderful costumes, beautiful singing, noisy drumming and even some acrobatics. All very enjoyable.
