The Dance That’s Sweeping Across Africa

There is a “strange wave of contemporary dance that has been blowing across Africa, in what dancers like Opiyo Okach’s Senegalese Germaine Acogny, Ivorian Alphonse Tierou and Beninois Koffi Koko describe as “shifting the centre of African dance”. Opiyo is an award winning dancer at large, with Kenyan roots.