In My Africa Arthur

# Every day when you're walkin' down the street

# Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day We can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm The rhythm of the street

# Open up your eyes! Open up your ears!

# Get together and make things better by working together

# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

# Believe in yourself For that's the place to start

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

# We can learn to work and play And get along with each other

-# What a wonderful kind of day

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

-HEY! #

Hey, DW.

-Hey!

-Whoa!

Oof!

Hi, I'm DW.

You probably know that already, but I bet you don't know where we are.

There are cars, shops, signs...

Could be a city anywhere, right?

But it happens to be in Africa.

We're in a city called Dakar in a country called Senegal.

This is my friend, Shake, and this show is all about him.

It's not entirely accurate.

It's more about you and my cousin Brain.

Well, that's true, but you're in it.

We should have a show just about you and me.

We would call it Shake And DW.

I like it, but how about DW And Shake?

Anyway, tell it to Arthur, he's the show hog.

We'll work on it. In the meantime, welcome to our story.

Here's my country, Senegal.

And this is me a few months ago

before I left for Elwood City.

You'll see, you'll make plenty of new friends.

Do you think they'll have my favourite foods like poulet yassa

and cous cous? Do they eat cous cous in America?

And do they have movies? Do they celebrate birthdays?

For my fifth birthday, can we go to the circus?

Attention, boys and girls.

Let's all give a big welcome to Shake, our new student.

-He comes all the way from...

-I know, I know! He's from Africa

and he's Brain's cousin.

Arthur told me all about you. Here, I drew this for you.

Thank you very much, but what is it?

That's you and bunch of other kids getting on the hippo bus to school,

which is inside a volcano, and those are lions hiding in the trees.

Do you have crossing guards to protect you from the lions?

I've never seen a lion in my life. Where did you learn this nonsense?

Erm, movies and TV, I guess.

Well, it's completely wrong.

I live in a city which is bigger than this one.

DW, I'm sure you meant well,

but you should learn about a place before you describe it.

Ha, you don't know anything about Africa!

I guess not, but I'm going to learn!

I'm going to learn about the whole country.

It's not a country, it's a continent.

There are actually 54 countries in Africa.

Wow! That's a lot to learn...

but I'm going to do it, you just wait.

Africa's over here, dear.

This is going to take forever!

All these books are making my head spin

and I don't even know how to read!

It was hard for me to learn about Turkey when I was writing to Adil

and that was just one country. Maybe you...

-Don't say it!

-Don't say what?

That it's too hard for me and I should just give up.

That's what you were going to say, right?

No. I was going to say you should get a little help from someone

who knows more than we do.

Oh, sometimes you do have a few good ideas, Arthur Read.

'Hello...'

Learning something about all 54 countries

is a tremendous amount of information.

We could assemble it in the form of a graph.

Perhaps using a hierarchal approach. We'll need a cataloguing system

to inventory our documents. Then we'll create a template upon which

we can build our research model.

It'll be as simple as learning your ABCs

Oh, so you mean we'll make a song?

-That's how I learnt my ABCs.

-Erm, no, that's not what I meant.

But that's a much better idea. Let's do it!

# 54 things, 54

# Things to see and to explore

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# The continent of Africa is deep and long and wide

# With 54 countries to keep my song diversified

# There's rhythmic beats, new things to eat and places you can go

# And every day a different way that you can say hello

# For instance meeng-gah-bou is howdy-do when visiting in Ghana

# Dumela ma is how you say "Hello" inside Botswana

# The Muslims greet the folks they meet with Salaam-Alaikum

# In Gambia, Morocco and Sudan's hometown cartoon

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa, see this when you go

# Burundi's got the deepest lake and then the highest peak

# Jet set from Tanzania just next door to Mozambique

# And carving through the continent there flows the mighty Nile

-# Pass Uganda, Eritrea and look out

-A crocodile

# Namibia's wild skeleton coast is littered with wrecked ships

# And Cote d'Ivoire has chocolate fields - I love my chocolate chips

# Victoria Falls in Zambia - it makes a mighty sound

# Zimbabwe shares the falls as well There's lots to go around

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa

# Life is all a glow... #

Did you two just write that song?

It's amazing!

I'll tell you what's amazing - the smell coming from that basket!

It's poulet yassa - spicy lemon chicken.

My mom thought you might like to try some Senegalese home cooking.

Your mom was right. Let's eat!

Hey, maybe we should have a food section in our song.

Oh, definitely. There are so many delicious dishes to try from Africa.

Poulet yassa is just a tail of the iceberg.

You mean the tip of the iceberg? Tell me a few of them.

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa There's lots of food they grow

# The Comoros has the Selacamp The prehistoric fish

# In Congo they eat Wamba stew

# That stew's my favourite dish

# In Sao Tome and Principe they like their food with spice

# The fish in Mauritius is hot and delicious, it's really very nice

# Sahara in Algeria's a hot and Arab land

# Vacation in the Seychelles and relax upon the sand

# The Madagascar aye aye taps on trees to find its lunch

# If you like rice then you'll love Mauritania

# They munch rice a bunch

# Farmers out in Kenya they raise cattle, goats and hens

# And Burkina Faso's called the land of upright men

# The cotton from Benin is in the clothes we wear to school

# There's 40 words for camel in Somalia - pretty cool

# Hey! Bembeya Jazz comes from Guinea

# Baobab trees are stout, not skinny

# Ethiopians eat teff not potato

# Equatorial Guinea's quite near the equator

# In South Africa Two Peace Prize winners

# In Togo they eat fufu for dinner

-# Senegal's got a pink lake

-Mali's got the blue man

# The folks in Nigeria spice food with cumin

# They do, it makes a tasty stew. #

Ha-ha! All right, good job!

Do you think we're ready to be pop stars?

I don't know about that, but we could try singing it for the class.

Kids, we have a special treat today.

DW is going to sing a song she wrote about Africa.

SHE GULPS

'Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.'

I can't wait for the part about the hippo bus.

Or the part where DW turns red because she embarrasses herself.

THEY GIGGLE

She's not going to embarrass anyone. Not with me singing it with her.

Thanks for helping me and I'm sorry I made that silly drawing.

I'm glad you made it. If you hadn't we'd never be pop starts.

Shake, we're not pop stars.

Not yet, DW. A week ago you knew nothing about Africa,

now look at you.

DRUMS BEAT

# 54 things, 54

# Things to see and to explore

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# The world's biggest frog is found inside of Cameroon

# In Chad the long fish yawn and wake up when it rains in June

# Gorillas in Rwanda have a hooting sort of speech

# Go to Gabon to see an elephant walk on the beech

# Angola's full of dino bones Museum in the ground

# Libya's got those Roman ruins The coolest ruins around

# And Egypt has the pyramids the sphinx and King Tut's tomb

# Malawi's got a town called Livingstonia, I presume

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa, joy and beauty flow

# Tunisia's know for a gorgeous gate and Swaziland makes glass

# From old recycled bottles that the boys and girls amass

# Lesotho folks don't go outside without their fancy hats

# The artists in Sierra Leone weave really pretty mats

# The tunes they play in Niger, hey They're vital and alive

# The hip co of Liberia That style's going to thrive

# Cape Verde's got morna, man I dig that swinging beat

# Guinea-Bissau goombay just makes me want to stamp my feet

# In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# In my Africa It's almost time to go

# My Africa's an ageless land I'm glad that you could see

# Its continent's so full of life You're all my family

# And now we leave this loving place Its heartfelt family ties

# A warm embrace, a smiling face To bid a sweet goodbye

# To my Africa

# Hooray! To my Africa

-# Magic Africa

-In the C.A.R

-# Lovely Africa

-D.R.C

# Magic Africa

# In my Africa. #

CHEERING

That was wonderful, DW.

And now I'd like to introduce our newest student.

Kids, this is Keith from Kalamazoo.

Does anybody here know anything about Kalamazoo?

No, but I'd love to learn.

# Every day when you're walkin' down the street

# Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-# What a wonderful kind of day What a wonderful kind of day.

-Hey!

-#