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Falle Nioke sings in Coniagui – a language from west Africa listed as having ‘threatened’ status. Surprisingly he is actually based in the quiet English seaside town of Margate where he’s become something of a local celebrity playing traditional African music on his equally traditional instrument, a gongoma. Falle sings in nine languages that he learnt during a childhood spent in an army camp and has just released an album ‘Salia’ with the BIWI Collective - a music agency co-founded by renowned Senegalese singer Baaba Maal. So why has Falle brought the sounds of his childhood to the UK?

(Pic: Falle Nioke in Margate. Credit: Falls Nioke)