Dancing is dynamic. This is what many children and young people have discovered at Tamale Youth Home Cultural Group in northern Ghana.
More than 3,500 school children have already been taught drumming and dancing here. The goal is to stimulate the children’s creativity and inclusion in the local community through a musical education and introduction to the roots of Ghanaian music.
‘The nucleus of the education we offer is music. It’s a matter of keeping the locally rooted culture alive while spreading it out and making it a profession. After all it is not easy being an artist,’ says Annemarie Grüner, Danish board member of TYHGC.
‘Before I was a nobody, now I am a somebody’.
Annemarie quotes a now 25-year-old woman she met 15 years ago when