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NIGERIA-CULTURE-MUSIC-DRUMMING
TO GO WITH AFP STORY:An old drum beats a path from the ancients to Erykah Badu by Susan Njanji
Female rapper Adesola Idowu popularly known as Weird MC looks after a rehearsal in Lagos on November 27, 2011. Weird MC used a talking drummer when she released her single Ijo-ya (Let's dance) in 2006. The West African talking drum, a glass-shaped instrument usually made of wood and animal hide, had in the past served as a means of communication between villages long before the existence of phones, not to mention email and text messages. The talking drum is imbued with a complex set of sounds roughly mimicking the words of local languages. From the way the drum is beaten, those familiar with it can tell if it is announcing a birth, death, marriage, declaration of war or arrival of the king. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
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Lagos, NIGERIA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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PIUS UTOMI EKPEI |
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11 Mai 2012 |
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4256 x 2832 (1.05 MB) |
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