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Tango Africa 

THE FIRST TANGO MEETING IN AFRICA

April 16, 2026  – April 20, 2026
La Somone, Senegal

Royal Horizon Baobab Hotel 4 ★★★★

JUST A DREAM 

Let’ s meet all together
for the first time in Africa

Just tango, just for you,  above all our differences. It will  be enough to be a good decent dancer, to  be elegant, to make it special. It is just a dream and only your contribution  will make it special and unique. 

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Our international Tdj Team

Vivi La Falce – ARGENTINA 

TDJ – ARGENTINA
Vivi La Falce, one of the most acclaimed ambassadors of tango in the world, could not be missing! Born in Buenos Aires in 1982, she began her career as a professional DJ at the age of 18, under the guidance of her mentor and friend Dany Borelli. She has been resident DJ at some of the most famous “temples of tango porteño” – including Lo de Celia, El Arranque, Lujos, Salón Canning, Obelisco Tango, and El Rodríguez – and for six years she was the official DJ of the  World Championship. She has been living in Italy for several years and from here she continues to bring her music and passion to milongas, international encuentros, and festivals . She is also the official DJ for the tango dance floor on Costa Cruises’ dance-themed cruise “Dançando a Bordo.” She likes to say about herself: “I enjoy my musical world knowing that the dancers are the most important thing. I simply work to make people dance and dance.” We are very proud to welcome her for her first appearance in Africa, confident that her art will make the experience unforgettable.

Donny Aminou – CAMEROON

TDJ – CAMEROON/ HOLLAND

Donny Aminou is first and foremost a passionate tango dancer, who always dances with musicality and a big smile. A smile that will be even bigger in Africa, because he was born on this continent, in Cameroon to be precise, in even though he has been living in the Netherlands for over thirty years! When he is DJing, he prefers the music from the golden age with a touch of “guardia vieja,” aware of the importance of always maintaining contact with the energy generated by the dance floor. In addition to knowing “danceable” music well, he loves being on the dance floor. He has worked as a DJ in numerous Milongas, Encuentros and Marathons in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and Latvia, and we are delighted to share this new adventure with him.  

Luis Cono – CHILE

TDJ – CHILE /SWEDEN

Luis Cono was born in Chile and has lived in Sweden for many years. He is above all a passionate milonguero, and it’s rare that he doesn’t dance until the last tanda of a milonga night! As a DJ, he has worked in many European and American countries, and he prefers traditional music. He refuses to create playlists and prefers to improvise his selections depending on the “temperature” of the dance floor. He has published two books (bilingual Spanish/English) dedicated to tango – “Relatos de un milonguero” and “Conversando de tango” – and is really excited to get to know Africa in this way, through tango.

Roham Farzami – IRAN

TDJ – IRAN/ HOLLAND


Roham Farzami, originally from Iran, has been living in the Netherlands for years. A splendid milonguero and DJ, he believes that every milonga evening is a story to be written together with the dancers on the dance floor. He prefers traditional tango, and his music selection, which has been appreciated for years in local milongas, festivals, and international encuentros, is pure poetry. He is also one of the first friends who supported and promoted the Africa Tanguera project. 

Radi Angel – BULGARIA

Radoslava is born and lives in Varna, Bulgaria. Since child, she plays piano, dances and is also very much in love with tango. Life introduced her to Tango Argentino relatively late, but regardless, today, together with her teacher, she runs a tango school in Varna. She is a TDJ at many milongas in Bulgaria. She is a therapist and that gives her a perspective of tango as a healing art in its social aspect and the skill of human movement in couple. For her, tango is the music that motivates two people to move in space in most diverse forms and with most diverse feelings at the same time. As a DJ, Radoslava is focusing on romantic and dramatic tango rhythms. For her each tanda is a process of creation and she constantly diversifies the combination of songs. Apart from DJing, she organizes regular milongas, events and the tango festival “Acercamiento Tango” in Varna.

Marty Gooden – USA

Introducing DJ Tincho at Tango Africa 2026!

Based in Dayton, Ohio, by way of Washington, D.C., Tincho has been a passionate tango dancer since 2007 and a dedicated DJ since 2018. Over the years, he’s become a familiar and beloved presence at milongas across the U.S. Midwest and East Coast—from Ohio and Michigan to Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas—and has even shared his music internationally in Marseille, France.

We can’t wait to dance to his music at Tango Africa!
LE PARRAIN
The event is dedicated to

Facundo Posadas

With his family roots, Facundo Posadas, undoubtedly represents the most emblematic tanguero link between Africa and America, one. His great-grandfather and his brother were brought to America from Africa at the age of 8 as servants in the19th century. He joined the army together with his brother and took part in two revolutions led by General Bartolomé Mitre. After that, they turned to journalism and became active in founding the daily newspaper ‘La Nación’ in Bs As.  Facundo has been dancing tango since back in the 50’s. He may be the only Afroargentine that tours around the world, known by his dancing and teaching Tango, Milonga and Candombe. He is great-grandnephew of the composer Carlos Posadas, author of more than 40 tangos like ‘El Toto’, ‘El Jaguel’, ‘El Tamango’, ‘Cordón de Oro’. Facundo started dancing the Candombe, the popular dance in black communities, when he was three and by the age of thirteen was already proficient in the dances of the time. He started dancing professionally by 18 and his career spanned from latin dances all the way to swing dancing, having performed with the likes of Count Basie and the George Gee Swing Orchestra. He also had the opportunity to dance with all the great orchestras: Di Sarli, Troilo, D’Arienzo, Osvaldo Pugliese, Domingo Federico. In 1997, teaming up with Kelly Posadas, Facundo was invited in the USA where he’s still based and carries out his teaching and dancing activity with his wife Ching Pin. 

Monica Maria Fumagalli

She was born in Milan, where she dedicated herself to classical and contemporary dance. She took up tango in 1990, dancing for more than 10 years in couple with Osvaldo Roldán and collaborating with artist  like as Arrigo Cappelletti, Olivier Manoury, Higo Eisenberg, Luis Borda, Hiperyon, Extravargario, Tango Seis. And with different theater directors and coreographers like Massimo Navone, Coco Leonardi, Jorge Cuadrelli, Silvia Vladimivsky and Salo Pasik, Khrystine Perrot. Guest dancer with dance companies and Tv programs in Italy, Spain, Cuba, Argentina. Dancer and choreographer in the film Milonga directed by Emidio Greco. Since 2012, she collaborates with Yatma Diallo. Together they hold permanenttango school in Milan and workshops in many European cities and in the USA.  They also performed in different countries: Italy, Argentina, Holland, USA, Albany, etc. She obtained her Master’s degree in Hispano-American language and literature (Università degli Studi di Milano) with a thesis on Jorge Luis Borges and her Phd with a research concerning Buenos Aires popular music and literature 1990-2010. She translated several tango essays from Spanish and published her on essays, also translated into English and French. Among them: Blackness and Tango, a story of love hidden in the notes (2015).

THE WRITER

Rafael Flores Montenegro 

He is dedicated to the dissemination of Tango, which he explores with emotional gravity, as well as literary, from a novel vision of the oral traditions and the poetics embodied in the lyrics of the tangos. He has coordinated several artistic shows in Spain and Europe; he has interviewed important figures of the Tango world and since the eighties he has been musical director and collaborator in concerts. Since the late ‘80s, he has shared his knowledge and research about tango culture over the Spanish radio airways, collaborating with various broadcasters for over 30 years: Radio Cadena Española, RNE Radio 4, Onda Madrid, Radio Voz and RNE Radio 5. He wrote articles and gave lectures in cultural centres and universities of America and Europe. He was awarded the 1997 SADAIC prize for the dissemination of Argentine music and literature. His professional development is also committed to teaching in different literary workshops and through lectures on literature and tango in universities and cultural institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. If you want to know more about him: https://rafaelfloresmontenegro.com/

ART SPACE

Corentin FAYE, known as “Mister Co”Corentin FAYE

Corentin FAYE, known as “Mister Co”, was born on 23 October 1968 in the south Senegal. He lives between Paris, Dakar and Pointe a Pitre and has his own studio on the island of Gorée. Influenced during his adolescence by the novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, Le monde s’effondre, he questions the persistence of a traditional heritage in Africa and its confrontation with modernity. A committed artist, he pays close attention to current socio-political events and aims to deliver messages of peace. He paints in oil or acrylic, sometimes adding other materials such as newspaper cuttings, corrugated cardboard and hessian. Since 2018, he has also been creating installations and carrying out performances, in which he continues to evoke history but also the memory of the present day. Nel 2020 is a finalist at GEEW BI at the Institut Français de Dakar . His interest in tango borned in 2022, at the First Tango Festival in Guadeloupe, and since that moment he has not stopped painting it. If you want to know more about him: https://corentinfaye.org/

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Somone

Just tango, just relax…

One of the most heard words in Senegal is “teranga,” hospitality in the Wolof language. This word, better than any other, succinctly represents the soul of this country, a philosophy, passed down from generation to generation and practiced daily. In Senegal, the spirit of community and welcome, are the gateway to the country’s rich culture. However, Senegal’s attractiveness is also linked to the climate of stability and peace, the absence of armed conflict. For this reason, numerous international institutions, NGOs, multinational corporations, choose Senegal as the base of their activities. The country is a member of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization that brings together 15 countries guaranteeing an area of free movement of people and goods to their citizens.

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