Our Mission
Indigenous People is a UK charity promoting cultural diversity, participation and understanding through music, arts and education. We work with traditional artists and communities — particularly in Africa — to create opportunities for cultural exchange, learning and participation, while supporting the preservation and development of indigenous cultural traditions.
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African Head Charge are one of the most innovative and enduring groups to emerge from the meeting of African musical traditions, Jamaican Rastafarian culture and the pioneering British dub scene. Led by master percussionist and vocalist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and shaped through his long-running creative partnership with legendary producer Adrian Sherwood, the band has spent more than four decades creating its own unmistakable fusion of African percussion, deep dub, hypnotic chants, psychedelia and experimental electronics.
Still evolving, still uncompromising and formidable live, African Head Charge remains a band that sounds like nobody else.
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The Kakatsitsi Master Drummers from Ghana are known for their neo-traditional, funky, groovy and trancey style of drumming, designed to move western dance floors and built around the style of lead drummer Samuel ‘Injoly’ Addo. The quality of their singing also sets them aside from many other African drumming groups.
Kakatsitsi can deliver a wide variety of performances, workshops, ceremonies and processions, suitable for festivals, venues, family gatherings and can adapt to both formal and informal settings.
To see some pictures of the 2022 UK tour, and other pictures of the group, please visit their Facebook page
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To watch videos of Kakatsitsi, please visit their Youtube Channel
Indigenous People have a very strong educational dimension, delivering educational performances and workshops across the UK and Ireland.
Their educational work delivers a wide range of educational outcomes identifiedin the National Curriculum, Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and Curriculum of the Republic of Ireland. These include promoting positive images of black / African people, dispelling negative sterotypes and the prejudice they can inform, celebrating cultural difference and tolerance toward minorities and developing children’s listening, concentration and teamworking skills. We also highlight the many health and wellbeing benefits of drumming, dancing and singing together.