Sounds of Africa

Saturday - April 12 - Sounds of Africa.
The African Students Organization here in NW Arkansas, stationed in Fayetteville, organizes this once a year. The aim is to acquaint their guests with the African culture, for the Africans themselves to enjoy their culture and dances and meet each other again, and also very importantly, to raise awareness and financial aid to support our African brothers and sisters back home. Donations are usually made from the over 300 guests present and these go to relief efforts in Africa such as to help those suffering from HIV/AIDS.

The program features dances from all over Africa, videos, fashion shows, freestyle dancing, drumming, eating, trading african artifacts, and then socializing afterwards. This year's program ended with a dance which continued into the early hours of Sunday. It was a lot of fun. For more pictures, please click here. You will need a temporal Walgreens login to see the pictures.
Guests slowly filter into the ballroom
We had a very good MC
Mohammed, the outgoing president, is a very dedicated and hardworking executive. This event marked the end of his term and was a huge success. He's also a good dancer and took part in some of the perfomances.

We had very talented drummers too


This girl from some Northern African country...I forget which one...was incredible!!
This was really good too

A Cameroonian, Mohammed from Morrocco, and I forget where the third person came from. They gave a delightful performance
These kids were too cute! They danced too!
And more... He's from Ghana
And the girls...
Fashion Parade. There were so many beautiful costumes I couldn't put them all on here. Go to this link if you want to see more.
From Cameroon

From Cameroon too!

Adeline is from Cameroon. Very sweet. She is also the incoming president taking over from Mohamed.
Selling African artifacts at the fundraising.