Lessons teaching songs from Africa

Learn African dances with your kids.

All Around This World’s classroom and homeschool lessons for kids teach African songs through experience, engagement and FUN.

All of these multimedia lessons are available for purchase through All Around This World’s page on TeachersPayTeachers.com or for free for students who take class each week online with Jay.

African Women's Song -- Let's Sing A Hiyeni -- All Around This World

A “women’s song” song from Mozambique that reminds us “we are all in the village.”

African Women's Song -- Let's Sing A Hiyeni -- All Around This World

Arabic Colors Song -- Let's Sing Arsomo Baba -- All Around This World

A catchy and colorful Moroccan kids’ song

Arabic Colors Song -- Let's Sing Arsomo Baba -- All Around This World

North African Lullaby -- Let's Sing Atas Atas -- All Around This World

A bittersweet Algerian Berber lullaby

North African Lullaby -- Let's Sing Atas Atas -- All Around This World

African Play Song -- Let's Sing Awa Yombei -- All Around This World

A sing-along, dance-along, follow-the-leader song from the Gambia

African Play Song -- Let's Sing Awa Yombei -- All Around This World

West African Drum Song -- Let's Sing Bale Ile -- All Around This World

A participatory, polyrhythmic drumming song from Nigeria

West African Drum Song -- Let's Sing Bale Ile -- All Around This World

African Frog Song -- Let's Sing Cibula -- All Around This World

Jumping like a Tanzanian frog is fantastically fun

African Frog Song -- Let's Sing Cibula -- All Around This World

African Animal Song -- Let's Sing Diarra Loro Lora -- All Around This World

This song from Burkina Faso reminds us: beware the lion in the market!

African Animal Song -- Let's Sing Diarra Loro Lora -- All Around This World

African Drum Song -- Let's Sing Do Do Ki Do -- All Around This World

Drumming along with a Cameroonian masquerade

African Drum Song -- Let's sing Do Do Ki Do -- All Around This World

African Laughing Song -- Let's Sing Ha Ha Ha -- All Around This World

Laugh along with this Zimbabwean love song

African Laughing Song -- Let's Sing Ha Ha Ha -- All Around This World

Africa travel song -- Let's Sing He Motsoala -- All Around This World

We “travel” around the continent with this South African song

All Around This World lesson for classrooms and homeschool -- Let's sing He Motsoala -- an African travel song

African Food Song -- Let's Sing Keenene -- All Around This World

This Ugandan chant gives kids the chance to DEMAND dinner

African Food Song -- Let's Sing Keenene -- All Around This World

African Love Song -- Let's Sing Kikalama -- All Around This World

An affable, affirming and surprising song from Guinea

African Love Song -- Let's Sing Kikalama -- All Around This World

East African Marriage Song -- Let's Sing Kipenzi Changu -- All Around This World

A wedding song from Kenya in which the groom lovingly reassures his bride

East African Marriage Song -- Let's Sing Kipenzi Changu -- All Around This World

Ethiopian Dance Song -- Let's Sing Nanu Nanu Ney -- All Around This World

Shake and shimmy your shoulder to this classic from Ethiopia

Ethiopian Dance Song -- Let's Sing Nanu Nanu Ney -- All Around This World

African Harvest Song -- Let's Sing Nsa We -- All Around This World

This Ugandan song reminds us that if we want to have a healthy harvest we all have to work together

African Harvest Song -- Let's Sing Nsa We -- All Around This World

South African Lullaby -- Let's Sing Senzenina -- All Around This World

A strong South African Apartheid-era lament

South African Lullaby -- Let's Sing Senzenina -- All Around This World

Anti-Apartheid Song -- Let's Sing Thinantsha -- All Around This World

A powerful and prescient anti-Apartheid anthem — “We are the youth!”

Anti-Apartheid Song -- Let's Sing Thinantsha -- All Around This World

Malagasy Song -- Let's Sing Tsy Akeo -- All Around This World

Imagine you’re a Malagasy lemur . . . .

Malagasy Song -- Let's Sing Tsy Akeo -- All Around This World

African Lullaby -- Let's Sing Tulo Tulo -- All Around This World

African Lullaby for Kids -- Tulo Tulo -- All Around This World

Zimbabwean Wedding Song -- Let's Sing Wai Bamba -- All Around This World

Zimabwean Wedding Song -- Let's Sing Wai Bamba -- All Around This World


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