Rhythm of Africa

Rhythm of Africa

Wherever you go in Africa, you’ll find rhythm. Africa exudes a simple rhythm, a strikingly basic one, and it is not generated by small plastic objects with LED lights and earphones plugs. In Africa, the beat often blends so smoothly with the background that you have to concentrate to hear it. only then do you realise that Africa is, in fact, the rhythm.
Of course, music is part of this pulse. So is the flapping of a bird’s wings, or the drumming of hooves across the Serengeti plains.
You can hear it in the beat in a thousand waterfalls, or in the tapping of a humble toktokkie. Africa is filled with it. And people-even-people- contribute to the repeated melody that makes Africa unique. It’s been like that since the dawn of time, and it will be like that forever.

By Amos vd Merwe.