sentences:  In the early 1980s he met Sowah Mensah, a musician and teacher from Ghana, launching a friendship and new musical direction.Anderson went on to study Ghanaian music with Mensah and with teachers in Ghana for many years.He has also studied Haitian ritual drumming with John Amira in New York, spent time with the great frame drum master Glen Velez, took study abroad trips to China and Brazil and spent several years studying tabla with Marcus Wise and djembe drumming with Foday Bangoura in the Twin Cities.