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CULTURE
Afrikan Arts

Preserve Traditional

African Music and Dance

By Shibero Aketsa

frican history and sculpture, rock art, masks, poetry ity, while preserving the rich culture,
culture, is recorded and and especially music and dance traditions and history.
transmitted in many which are African art forms deep-
Aways in Africa, and ly woven into the very fabric of When I lived overseas, I often heard
deeply ingrained and expressed social life, and play a central role in non-black people comment on how
clearly through the many different binding together all members of the ‘black’ people got the rhythm. I took
forms of art, such as storytelling, community through corporate activ- it for granted because it was part of

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