<p>What's behind the bulging interest in African drumming amongst Australian women. I attend a class to find out; and also talk to An Australian who triumphed against the clutches of malaria in West Africa, just to mount what has become a decades-old passion as a Master Drummer.</p>

For a decade, Africans in Melbourne, Australia for a weekend in November, gather to celebrate and showcase their cultural diversity. But there's a tension between them wanting to be seen, and what the wider white Australia would rather the Africans present themselves as. A multi-series narrative reveals the push and pull: from 'hair touching' to beloved African rhythms.