When Jeff Klein went to Africa for the first time in January this year, after playing African drums all over the United States for more than 20 years (Klein's originally from Coney Island in New York), he experienced culture shock—but not the kind you might expect when traveling to one of the poorest countries on earth. It wasn't the poverty that stunned him, it was the richness of the culture and the deep, joyous respect for music—his music—which was greater than anything he'd imagined.

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