Nigerian boy whose video went viral while dancing in the rain gets ballet scholarship aleteia.org

“Whenever he is dancing, I feel happy, I have joy watching him dancing,” says the mother of Anthony Mmmesoma Madu in an interview with the BBC.

Anthony is an 11-year-old boy from Lagos, Nigeria, whose dancing has gone viral thanks to a video of him performing ballet in the rain. It looks like an unlikely stage: an uneven cement patio, with trash and crates of empty bottles piled against an unpainted wall, and what looks like a woman washing clothes in a bucket in the background. Yet Anthony seems to be in a different world as he gracefully pirouettes, leaps, and poses elegantly…

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