It's shocking no-one's done this before': the 13-hour gig digging up the African roots of global pop

"When we move, owing to war, economic crisis, slavery or other factors, we bring music that mutates into new culture. It bears a trace of our history."

"It made Elsisi thinking about how and where rhythms are founded, and how music itself can be an archive for histories that aren't written."

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