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FRANCE 24 programme highlight: Lisbon: How African music is breaking down racial barriers?

In February 2022, France and Portugal embarked upon a cultural season that will see nine months of arts events in both countries. To celebrate this international friendship, France 24 is exploring Portuguese culture in a special programme. The culture show Encore! is going on a musical journey to Lisbon to meet the country’s top artists.

This show zooms in on the new Afro-Portuguese scene, whose influences come from Portugal’s former colonies Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe.

Presenter Eve Jackson meets award-winning Dino d’Santiago, a rising star of Portuguese music who mixes traditional and contemporary sounds. And DJ Marfox is in the mix, to explain how he brings new beats to the airwaves.

France 24’s team also takes part in a concert from the Batukadeiras Orquesta, a group of female drummers and Cape Verdean singers, specialising in Batuka – a rhythmic call-and-response style created in Cape Verde during the slave trade.

Watch on France 24 on Friday 13 May at 1015 GMT.