Africa: Afropop Worldwide Rivers Project At the Kennedy Center

[Afropop] Last year, when the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, asked Afropop Worldwide to curate and produce an evening of music with the theme of African rivers, it didn’t take long to choose two rivers whose cultures could be well represented by excellent, U.S.-based musicians. Long experience in New York, with its diverse West African community, told us that there were fine musicians from Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria–all touched by the Niger River–close at hand. So began the idea for the Niger River Ensembl