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Salsa lives on in Benin though the Cubans have gone


The Guardian - 06-Nov-2012

s main city, a dozen couples twirled to salsa music. Unlike other west African cities, the people dancing together cut across all social classes. They included a market hawker, a diplomat, besuited men, a migrant worker and a teenager in matching canary-yellow hotpants and stilettos. In Cotonou city centre, salsa music drumming from clubs and roadside bars rises to meet Afrobeat pop. "No modern music...


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