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This weekend I was in Brussels and, just by the way, I passed by a certain festival (Jam'in Jette) where I saw some people playing West African music . This made me think again about something a friend of mine said some time ago: ''There is no African music where there are no Africans''. Today, as that day, I still find it true and regrettably this applies to the country I live in. If you can't listen to live concerts, have occasional chats with experienced musicians and the like, then you will always be just wandering in the dark and there's little you can accomplish. Even if you manage to do all this, some questions remain open: Who are you going to play with? Where will you find jams happening? And who will listen to this music anyway? I guess I'll have to visit cities like Brussels more often.