During my early days as a teacher here in Norfolk (after I arrived from Scotland forty years ago!), a fabulous troupe of Senegalese dancers/musicians came to the Theatre Royal in Norwich, and I took my entire class of 9yr-olds to an evening performance. They were entranced, and afterwards the performers came out into the foyer to talk to my children, but in French, so I had to translate.
During the following week, we did no end of art, poetry, geography and so on about West Africa.