He says somehow he was able to catch on to the moves quickly and after six months he had landed the lead in their production. After the show, Mouflet approached the mayor of Martinique, Aimee Cesaire, who had been in the audience, and told him of his intense desire to study dance in Africa. Cesaire granted him a scholarship to Mudra Afrique in Senegal, where he studied not only African dance but jazz, modern dance, theater and music. West African dancing is individual. It's not like ballet where everybody does first and second position the same way.
African dance is movement.
It's like hip-hop. His scholarship, however, did not last as long as he had thought. He received the scholarship, but he was surviving on very little money. He worked at the post office in France and using that money he would buy clothes there and sell them in Africa for a profit. That is where he developed his business sense.