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Group 9: Impara Band

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The second group we recorded at Jado’s studio in Kigali was the Impara Band, one of the pioneer bands of Afro-Cuban music in Rwanda. Impara is Rwandan for Impala. The band was founded in 1975 and originally had 9 members. They lost 7 of their members during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The two remaining…

Arrival to Rwanda, Background and Objectives

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The Pandemic slowed us down, but it couldn’t stop us.  Having completed our Zanzibar trip in February 2020, The Field Visits of Singing Wells were put on hold for three years.  But, we knew that our first visit when we could travel again would be Rwanda.   We all arrived to Kigali on November 22, 2023…

Group 6: Sudi Mavenge

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Sun 26th November AM – Highland Suites Hotel, Kigali In the morning we recorded a brilliant guitar player, Sudi Mavenge, at the Highland Suites hotel.  We were supposed to record him yesterday, along with his son Shukran Ngaborutonesha and his other guitarist Eric Nova, but there was a huge rainstorm and the location in Muhange…