In This Episode, Ojo's Dad Was Gifted A Talking Drum By Baba Onilu, But He Later Gave It To Ojo, What He Didn't Know Was That The Talking Drum Has A Magical Power.

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

The Djidji Ayokwe was officially returned to Ivory Coast after the French parliament approved a special law allowing the artefact to be removed from France’s national collections. The sacred drum had ...

PRINCE Adewale Laoye is one of the sons of the late Timi Agbale of Ede, Oba John Adetoyese Laoye, from the Heartland of the Yoruba nation in South Western Nigeria, West Africa. During his lifetime, ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — France returned a sacred talking drum looted during the colonial period to Ivory Coast on Friday as part of a nearly decade-old effort by the French government to return ...

Massamba Diop's talking drum from West Africa is central to the soundtrack of Marvel's "Black Panther." Senegalese Drummer For 'Black Panther' Shares Message Of Music With Connecticut Students Walt ...

Professor Coleman A. Jordan teaches architecture at Morgan State University. For over two years, he has worked closely with students and alumni from the Baltimore HBCU, as well as from Tuskegee and ...

I didn't know how much I didn't know about drums. There are drums that talk, that can imitate speech. There are drums grouped in families for the purpose of talking to each other. Tapping a drum with ...

Traditional chiefs gathered at Ivory Coast's main airport on Friday to welcome a "talking drum" looted over a century ago. This marks the first artefact returned to the West African nation by its ...