Today we had Jacky Essombe and her partner , Yoro, visit our
school to do some African dancing with each of our classes. Jacky is from
Cameroon and Yoro, or “Granpa” as he is more frequently called, is from Benin.
Clad in a gorgeous green outfit, Jacky led the classes in choral singing and
dancing.
We were not still for very long in this interactive session.
Yoro was playing the drums. He would play part of a rhythm
that I recognized from our African drumming workshop (put on by Milton) last
year but he would stop short from playing the whole thing. Duh de du duh de duh
de (duh duh) Eventually he did. It’s nice when you can make connections to
that. What’s interesting is that some students totally remembered that session
from last year, and others did not.
Anyway, the students had fun, moved around and gained some
appreciation for African culture. I know that when Jacky asked them to name
some African countries, my class was able to mention Sudan and Southern Sudan
as we just finished a great novel set there called
Here is Jacky’s website: http://www.jackyessombe.com/
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