Dino D’Santiago is whipping up the audience with the ferrinho. The musician and rapper plays the instrument, a metre-long length of iron with regular notches hacked into it, with a knife, just as his parents and grandparents did in Cape Verde. The crowd, crammed into Casa de Francisco, an art-nouveau townhouse turned concert venue in downtown São Paulo, starts bouncing to the fast metallic rhythm.
D’Santiago is in Brazil for the first night of the Kizomba Design Museum, a three-day festival coinciding with the Bienal de São Paulo,…
