Dabi's goal throughout his classroom visits is to promote cross-cultural understanding, appreciation and respect Dabi believes that in order to achieve this goal, the arts must be integrated with academic learning.

In a Residence Program, Dabi will make consecutive visits to the same classroom. Students will be introduced to Nigeria in West Africa through it's traditional music, dance and song. Dabi arrives with ,I Iya-ilu,1 gangan,3 bata drums 3 balafons, 2 djembes, an array of small hand-held percussion instruments and much pride for his culture.

Each student will experience every instrument, learn a call and response song in a tribal language, and learn some basic elements of traditional West African dance. By the end of the Residency, the students will be able to perform a short traditional West African melody. The Residency can be delivered in French ,Japanese or English. Upon completion of a Residency, many schools have invited Dabi and DDK to perform a school show in which the Residency classroom is invited on stage to accompany the group with the new skills they have learned - it has been hugely successful! )

--	Miyamae High Schl   --
Montessori International School   --	-- Keio University   --