Nice Black Aussies Incuriosity Complex

We continue with examining the steady spread of Rumba in Australia; partly because of the dancing freedom it hypnotises listeners into.

Aboard the trans-Atlantic Slave ships from Africa, Rumba music was a stowaway. At their final destinations, the African traditional music absorbed Caribbean and Spanish culture. In the 1930s Rumba then found its way back to its place of birth, through the absorption and reinterpretation of Cuban Records in Congo. The music is still on the move across Africa, and Europe. Now Australia asks for some.

In this part 2, on African cuisine, owner of a the popular street food joint, juggles to absorb the popularity of his inventive menu, and the booming interest it generates

We trace the path taken by one African Australian to construct homemade recipes in a country that refuses importation of exotic ingredients. Even though the general public loves the food, officials erect obstacles to stop the African from sharing his cuisines.

What's behind the bulging interest in African drumming amongst Australian women. I attend a class to find out; and also talk to An Australian who triumphed against the clutches of malaria in West Africa, just to mount what has become a decades-old passion as a Master Drummer.

At the Festival watching a film on police brutality on Blacks causes us to reflect on otherness and its trauma.