The Best From Africa

OCUS ORGANIZATION in Collaboration with YAYE DIB SABAR return by popular demand with

THE BEST from AFRICA

YAYE DIB SABAR West African Dance Company

Yaye Dib Sabar is a West African drum and dance company based in London, UK under the direction of Diene 'Waaw Waaw' Sagna.

The aim is to spread the diversity and beauty of West African culture to the UK and abroad.

The ‘Sabar’ is a traditional drum of the Wolof people of Senegal. It is usually played with one hand and one stick. Sabar music and dance is an important part of Senegalese culture and is enjoyed at social gatherings and celebrations, political and sporting events and in the popular music scene. Wolof master percussionists use complex, rapid and syncopated rhythms; some playing accompanying rhythms whilst others solo.

These rhythms are also expressed by Sabar dancers. The dance is a celebratory dance gestured through lively body swings, sharp leg juts, hip thrusts and the symbolic and spirited 5-step jump.

ABDOULAYE SAMB with full band: MINNJIARABY

Minnjiaraby is a band founded in 2001 by Abdulaye Samb, guitarist singer composer from Senegal. His original music is inspired by Fula and Mandinka cultures among many others.The name of the band means “The love of mixing”, which expresses the richness of senegalese traditions and ethnies, the beauty in them getting together, as well as an open-minded approach to all cultures and people and bridging and promoting them. The music has grown from Abdulaye's travels, collaborations and researches in Africa and Europe. He is now based in London where he's working on his first album.