In the second of two programmes featuring African music of possession and trance, Janet Topp-Fargion introduces spirit possession ceremonies from Madagascar and Zimbabwe; the Bori cult of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, in which each of some 400 spirits has his or her own tune; the Aka pygmy ritual in which drum rhythms combine with the hallucinogenic properties of the bondo tree; and the healing songs of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert.
Producer John Thornley