Years 3/4 and 5/6 joined together for the introduction day at Brent Knoll School.

Amoafi started the day with a Ghanaian call and response game featuring words from different languages mixed together to make a rhythmic cycle. The cycle is repeated in a call and response manner by the leader who stands in the middle of the circle. Players take it in turn to be leader when the current leader stands behind someone after three or four cycles.

Cycle
Tse tse kule
Tse tse kofisa
Kofisalanga
Katakyi langa
Kum adenne

Pronunciation
tse=che and kule=coolay


....ky=che
kum=coom

After this Sheila showed some of the African Worlds handling collection from the Horniman Museum. First of all pupils tried on garments from Africa and then they learnt about and played the musical instruments.

Amoafi is a story-teller and musician from Ghana, West Africa, and the pupils were able to hear her give a performance on the talking drum and hear a story before lunch. The story was called The Magic Herdsboy, Chinamakuete from Shona, Zimbabwe and featured a song which the pupils and teachers all joined in singing at the end. You should be able to hear this song being played.

(Chorus all together)
Zamnde ra de ra (x 4)

(Solo with chorus x 4)
Zamnde ande ande a we
Zamnde ra de ra
Zamnde ande ande a we
Zamnde ra de ra

(Chorus all together)
Zamnde ra de ra (x 4)

Now follow this link to read about the afternoon session