In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Anu Onasanya, Project Lead for the Foster Program, explains in detail how the programme is working to preserve the knowledge of African music and much more.
AML, a groundbreaking social project and digital hub for collating and sharing extensive knowledge about African music, recently launched the Foster Program.
So, you have musical instruments from pre-colonial to colonial days and postcolonial era that we have researched, working with musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and African music experts and bringing this body of knowledge together on AML. So, AML was officially launched last year, 2022, and we boast almost 12 million data points that we’ve been able to collate on the African Music library.
PT: Some of these schools have children with special needs, and they enjoy African music as well; how does Foster handle inclusivity in its operations?For Foster, there is no discrimination in terms of sexes – whether you are a girl or a boy, we usually give everyone equal opportunity. We leave no child behind, whether you are autistic or not.
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