Fidelis goes to school

A while back, Fidelis, Mr. Teku's son and my new buddy, told Eliza and I that we should quote on quote "come with him" because he wanted to show us something. Eliza and I, being skeptical, kept asking what it was, but he would not budge, and since we trust him, we decided, while in africa...
We walked down the road a little ways and started to hear music and voices in the near distance. As we approached our destination we realized that Fidelis was taking us to a school. A primary school at that. When we walked in, literally every little eye was on us, and we got escorted to the front of a huge assembly of kids, and were awarded seats in the shade-clearly a sign of respect seating arrangement. We soon discovered what exactly Fidelis had wanted us to see.
The only way to describe it is to say it was a sort of talent/fashion show, with an african twist, being put on by a kind of student council. There were multiple girls and boys who, upon the music cue, would walk out on the invisible runway and model their attire--eveningwear-- which consisted of the very typical "this is what the people in music videos going out to dinner look like", african traditional wear--which was my favorite as it was exactly what it sounds like, and casual "i am 'a la mode' right now lookin good wear. They would display these outfits and also do a little bit of african dancing at the same time, to what was presumably a few judges in the front row next to us, while all the little ones looked on and cheered. Intermission was a huge dance off, different guys and groups of people would get up there and dance like crazy.
I mean, dancing here IS their culture. I know no one who cannot dance. And the ones who are known as "good dancers" are literally out of control. It is amazing.
At one point, the dancers were getting people from the "audience" to come up and dance, and of course, "les blanches" were prime candidates for such an activity. Thankfully Eliza, and not me, got pulled up and taught a little dance move, and the crowd went wild. Fidleis was extrememly amused, as later we found out that that was his goal all along.
Later that week Fidleis took us to his own school for the same kind of event, but only with dancing. That time we came willingly and it was so fun to watch group upon group dance their pants off. I made friends with the young lady sitting next to me with an adorable baby, and so was allowed to hold the baby for half the show. Anne got a great picture of me in my kaba with a cameroonian baby, which im hoping she will put up at some point and i can attach a link on here.