This paper seeks to advance a theory on African music and dance in line with the much-talked about “paradigm shift” and ideal of African solutions to never ending African problems. Never-ending, maybe because Africans themselves have not yet analysed the problems and posited appropriate solutions brewed in the African pot. While African problems continue festering unresolved, Africans are too busy trying out solutions suggested for them by “people [such as whites] whose knowledge of [Africa and Africans] is limited” (Chinua Achebe cited by Gondo 2013:37). Both the Africans and their advisors are oblivious to the fact that for a solution to work in Africa, the analysis leading to the solution must itself be African by Africans.
Never-ending also because while ordinary Africans communicate in ways they are best at – i.e. through music and dance…
