But take another look. Uganda, a country in East Africa, is a land besieged by devastating war, extreme poverty and the AIDS pandemic. Among what is left once the dust settles is a disturbing ...

The choir has helped fund education for children in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and South Africa through choir performances in ...

The African Children’s Choir will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 at Tri-Village Christian Church in Pataskala. The choir was founded in 1984 by minister Ray Barnett to support the education ...

Britton Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will host the African Children's Choir on Nov. 30 at the church.

The African Children’s Choir will perform on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 7 p.m. at Creekside Christian Fellowship in ...

DECATUR — Johns Hill Music Makers learn fast. In one class period Friday, choral director Heather Pistorius taught the sixth-grade choir a traditional South African folk song, “Lilizela,” complete ...

When traveling to war-torn Uganda in the 1970s, the human rights activist Ray Barnett witnessed the horrors of dictator Idi Amin’s reign of terror: the gunfire from his death squads, the villages they ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

Traditional African musical sounds and songs are under threat today. More than 50 years after the end of official colonial rule, the legacy of colonialism continues to sideline many traditional ...