Benkadi’s mission is to unlock learning skills for life, improve educational outcomes and build communities.

Developing people and communities through West African drum, dance, and culture classes. Benkadi is fun backed by scientific research.

We provide instruments and instruction by highly experienced educators who have backgrounds as world class professional West African musicians and dancers. 

You provide the location and the participants – Benkadi does the rest.

Call us for:

• Semester long course (in-schedule arts class credit)

• After school programs

• Summer school and vacation programming

• Seminars, staff development and team building events

• Special events (Juneteenth, MLK, Kwanza, Earth Day etc.)