I have just finished watching the most amazing concert on BBC Four.

It was two hours of highlights from a concert held in March this year in Dakar to raise awareness of the ongoing malaria crisis in Africa. For anyone at all interested in African music, the line-up for the show was more impressive than Live Aid and Live 8 put together.

There were Seun Kuti (with a guest appearance from Manu Dibango), Tinariwen, Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, Youssou N’Dour, Orchestre Baobab, Baaba Maal, and Angelique Kidjo who I was already familiar with, and then a load of others who were all as good – Amazon are going to need extra storage to cope with how my wish list is going to expand now!

There were some documentary bits interspersed throughout. My favourites were at the beginning, showing how the whole things was set up. The first shot was of the football stadium, with a pair of massive vultures perched on the goalposts, and later on when the stage was set up, it was fun to see the frantic activity to try and remove the goalposts which were embedded in concrete right in front of the stage.

The most shocking moment was seeing what Andy Kershaw described as ‘a showcase open sewer’ running right next to the stadium where the concert was held, perfectly illustrating the scale of the problem when trying to combat malaria – with the Roll Back Malaria show happening within yards of a mosquito metropolis.

As for the music, it was just one highlight after another, and not a duff song in the whole two hours. The singer Corneille was a real phenomenon. He is from Rwanda, but settled in Canada after his family were all killed in the 1994 genocide, and this was his first visit back to the continent since then. His style is like an African Craig David. Not entirely my cup of tea, but worth it just to see the crowd reaction. Every female in the place seemed to know all the words to his song and joined in all the way through. There were tears and hysteria like a form of Beatlemania. Suddenly the world seemed smaller seeing the teenagers of Senegal behaving exactly the same as teenagers everywhere.

The climax to the show was Angelique Kidjo singing Malaika with just a single guitar accompaniment. She is starting to look a bit old now, but her voice is as powerful as ever. I find it impossible to hear her singing that song without getting the same goose-pimples I do when Pink Floyd do Comfortably Numb.

The concert was supposed to finish with Algerian superstar Khaled, but the airport officials in Brussels would not let him on the plane because he looked a bit foreign. And I am not making that up.

If this show was available on DVD I would buy it tomorrow and watch it all over again tomorrow night. It really was that good. Maybe it will come out on DVD one day, expanded to include more than one song from each artist.

And who was the British partner for this film? BBC Wales. Yes really. First Dr Who and now this. Its been a good year for BBC Wales.

(The programme is being repeated on Sunday night/Monday morning. Set the video)