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Nigerian drummer keeps traditional music alive

STORY: This Nigerian drummer teaches children how to play traditional instruments

(Adebayo Ayodeji / Drummer) "We are using this to revive our culture, our cultural values. Most of them, they’ve not seen this kind of drum before, they’ve not played it before and this is an opportunity to introduce them to it, so we are using it to at least do a kind of evangelism – evangelism of art.’’

Ayodeji holds bi-monthly musical workshops

‘’When you have 10 children play with you, those 10 children will have friends, so they will invite their friends. Imagine 10 inviting two-two friends, that will make us 30, and by the time they come, we invite their parents to come and see the performance, they see the positive of what we are doing and then they let their children join us.’’