AFP – Twilight settles on Bamako, and traffic starts to clog the roads on the banks of the mighty Niger River.
But something else is stirring on the river’s brownish waters: ripples from a boat, moored to a bank, where 12 young dancers are pounding the boards to the sound of tomtoms.
To the bemusement of peanut hawkers watching nearby, the dance troupe members are in final rehearsals…
