BAMP April 12, 2008

At Durham Armory

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Bouna Ndiaye

on WUNC 91.5 FM

Senegalese radio DJ Bouna Ndiaye has been bringing African music to the Triangle on his WNCU radio show "Bonjour Africa" for more than a decade. He also uses the music of his homeland to raise money for children suffering from malaria in Africa. His annual parties have brought in thousands of dollars for malaria treatments. Ndiaye joins host Frank Stasio to talk about his career on the air and the intersection between culture and community service.

 

Tar Heel of the Week:

His party in N.C. raises money to curb disease in West Africa

THOMASI MCDONALD, Staff Writer
DURHAM - Five years ago, Bouna Ndiaye was listening to National Public Radio when he heard a gloomy report about malaria killing people in sub-Saharan Africa.
For Ndiaye, who grew up in Senegal, the story was not news; he had contracted malaria many times as a child and once as a grown man. But he sat up and listened when he heard that known cures for malaria were no longer effective because the virus had mutated.

"Now that freaked me out," Ndiaye said.

So he decided to throw a party.