BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso — The musicians and dancers traveled in a navy convoy to succeed in the competitors, shifting in armored vehicles with troopers on the prepared by components of the nation the place Islamist extremists have banned their violins, drums and dance strikes.
There was a dancer whose shut pal had been killed for listening to a radio whereas he farmed. A violinist who now not dared to play on the marriages and baptisms within the villages the place he used to make his dwelling. A younger dancer who might now not go to concert events together with her mates in neighboring villages.