African Music & Culture — Africa Safari Academy

African Music & Culture

Africa Safari Academy — Netherlands Campus & On Location

Music is how Africa remembers. It carries history, philosophy, ceremony, and joy — across generations, across borders, across languages. To understand African music is to understand something profound about African culture, community, and humanity itself.

Led by Daniel Okiror — musician, storyteller, and cultural practitioner — this workshop brings African music and culture to life. Not as a performance you watch, but as something you participate in, feel, and carry with you.

What the Workshop Covers

• African musical traditions — an introduction to the diversity of African music across regions, including East African rhythms, communal drumming, and call-and-response traditions
• Traditional instruments — hands-on experience with instruments including the djembe, kalimba, and other African percussion and string instruments
• Music and meaning — how African music carries cultural values, spiritual practice, storytelling, and community memory
• Ubuntu and rhythm — the connection between communal music-making and Ubuntu philosophy — how rhythm creates belonging
• African song and storytelling — participating in African song traditions, including call-and-response and oral narrative through music
• Cultural context — situating African music within wider cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts

Programme Formats

• School workshop — half-day or full-day sessions for primary and secondary schools. From €245 per session
• Organisational session — team-building and cultural awareness session using African music. From €295 per session
• Community workshop — open community sessions in partnership with libraries, community centres, and cultural organisations. Contact us for rates
• Event & festival performance — live music and cultural demonstration for events, festivals, and corporate occasions. Contact us for rates

Who This Is For

• Primary and secondary schools — as part of cultural education, world music, or diversity programmes
• Universities and colleges
• Organisations looking for meaningful, culturally grounded team experiences
• Community centres, libraries, and cultural institutions
• Anyone curious about African music and culture

Book or Enquire

📧 africasafariacademy@gmail.com
📧 bookings.danielokirorband@gmail.com
📞 06 87 96 54 50

School and community group rates available. We also bring instruments and set up on location — no specialist facilities required.