This instrument also the balafon, which is an African marimba, and also the ngoni which is a five string West African lute.

Foday Musa Suso, a player of traditional African stringed instruments, capped the 1992 International Performing Arts Festival on Saturday with a striking and hypnotic performance in Bushnell Park.

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

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