ALY KEITA IN KENYA

Ivory Coast balafon player Aly Keïta will be in Nairobi to showcase his mastery in the instrument.Aly is a genius when it comes to the balafon, the African version of a Xylophone made from wood rather than steel.From an early age, he was initiated in the playing of this musical ancestor of the xylophone and the marimba, by his father, himself a balafon player.“I want my music to be alive and