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107 relations: Afro Celt Sound System, AfroCubism, Anne-Marie Nzié, Atlantic slave trade, Bambara people, Banjo, Bass (sound), Bikutsi, Bill Summers (musician), Bissa language, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Calabash, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Congo Basin, Congolese rumba, Cuba, Dagaaba people, Danny Elfman, Dave Brubeck, Dominic Howard, Drum, Dyula language, Dyula people, Electric guitar, Epic of Sundiata, Equatorial Guinea, Flat (music), Folk music, Ghana, Gourd, Griot, Guinea, Guitar, Gur languages, Gurunsi peoples, Habib Koité, Heptatonic scale, Herbie Hancock, Ibn Battuta, Idiophone, Igbo people, Ivory Coast, Kélétigui Diabaté, Kingdom of Kongo, Kolokani, Kora (instrument), Ligbi language, ..., Lobi people, Lonnie Liston Smith, Los Hombres Calientes, Mali, Mali Empire, Mama Ohandja, Mandé peoples, Mande languages, Manding languages, Mandinka language, Mandinka people, Marimba, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, Mory Kanté, Muse (band), Music of Guinea, Music of Mali, N'Faly Kouyate, Neba Solo, Ngoni (instrument), Niagassola, Oingo Boingo, Origin of Symmetry, Pentatonic scale, Percussion instrument, Pharoah Sanders, Pincez Tous vos Koras, Frappez les Balafons, Quincy Jones, Raheel Sharif, Rail Band, Rattle (percussion instrument), Richard Bona, Rokia Traoré, Salif Keita, Scale (music), Senegal, Senufo people, Sharp (music), Sierra Leone, Sikasso, Sosso Empire, Soumaoro Kanté, Spanish language, Stefon Harris, Struck idiophone, Suleyman (mansa), Sundiata Keita, Susu people, The Gambia, Toumani Diabaté, UNESCO, Upper East Region, West Africa, World music, Xalam, Xylophone, Zaire. Expand index (57 more) »
Afro Celt Sound System
Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group who fuse electronic music with traditional Irish and West African music.
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AfroCubism
AfroCubism is an award-winning, Grammy-nominated album featuring musical collaborations between musicians from Mali and Cuba.
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Anne-Marie Nzié
Anne-Marie Nzié (1932 – 24 May 2016) was a Cameroonian bikutsi singer.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
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Bambara people
The Bambara (Bamana or Banmana) are a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa, primarily southern Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal.
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Banjo
The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.
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Bass (sound)
Bass describes tones of low (also called "deep") frequency, pitch and range from 16-256 Hz (C0 to middle C4) and bass instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range C2-C4.
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Bikutsi
Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon.
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Bill Summers (musician)
Bill Summers (b. June 27, 1948) is a New Orleans based Afro-Cuban jazz/Latin jazz percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist who plays primarily on conga drums.
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Bissa language
Bissa (Bisa) is a Mande language that is spoken by the Bissa people of Burkina Faso, Ghana and (marginally) Togo.
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Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of about 537,728; it is the second largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
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Calabash
A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil.
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Cameroon
No description.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
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Congolese rumba
Congolese rumba, also known as Rumba Lingala, is a popular genre of dance music that originated in the Congo basin during the 1940s, with strong similarities to Cuban son.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Dagaaba people
The Dagaaba people (singular Dagao, and, in northern dialects, Dagara for both plural and singular, update as of 25 May 2003, retrieved 2009-02-12. in Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/. Retrieved 200902-12.) are an ethnic group located north of the convergence of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.
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Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.
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Dominic Howard
Dominic James Howard (born 7 December 1977) is an English musician, best known as the drummer, percussionist and co-producer for the rock band Muse.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Dyula language
Jula (or Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali.
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Dyula people
The Dyula (Dioula or Juula) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including the Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana,and Burkina Faso.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
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Epic of Sundiata
The Sundiata Keita or Epic of Sundiata (also referred to as the Sundiata Epic or Sunjata Epic) is an epic poem of the Malinke people and tells the story of the hero Sundiata Keita (died 1255), the founder of the Mali Empire.
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Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial, Guinée équatoriale, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country located in Central Africa, with an area of.
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Flat (music)
In music, flat or bemolle (Italian: "soft B") means "lower in pitch".
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Gourd
A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria or the fruit of the two genera of Bignoniaceae "calabash tree", Crescentia and Amphitecna.
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Griot
A griot, jali or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Gur languages
The Gur languages, also known as Central Gur, belong to the Niger–Congo languages.
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Gurunsi peoples
The Gurunsi, or Grunshi, are a set of ethnic groups inhabiting Kingdom of Dagbon of northern Ghana.
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Habib Koité
Habib Koité (Habib Kuwate, born 1958 in Thiès, Senegal) is a Malian musician, singer, songwriter based in Mali.
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Heptatonic scale
A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches per octave.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.
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Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta (محمد ابن بطوطة; fully; Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة) (February 25, 13041368 or 1369) was a Moroccan scholar who widely travelled the medieval world.
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Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.
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Igbo people
The Igbo people (also Ibo," formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group native to the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria.
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Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.
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Kélétigui Diabaté
Kélétigui Diabaté (1931 – 30 November 2012).
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Kingdom of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the southernmost part of Gabon.
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Kolokani
Kolokani is a town of approximately 57,307 inhabitants in Mali's Koulikoro Region.
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Kora (instrument)
The kora is a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.
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Ligbi language
The Ligbi (or Ligby) tribe speaks the Mande language spoken in Ghana in the north-west corner of the Brong-Ahafo Region.
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Lobi people
The Lobi belong to an ethnic group that originated in what is today Ghana.
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Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. (born December 28, 1940) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion, quiet storm, smooth jazz and acid jazz genres.
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Los Hombres Calientes
Los Hombres Calientes is a New Orleans based jazz group.
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.
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Mali Empire
The Mali Empire (Manding: Nyeni or Niani; also historically referred to as the Manden Kurufaba, sometimes shortened to Manden) was an empire in West Africa from 1230 to 1670.
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Mama Ohandja
Mama Ohandja is a Cameroonian singer, musical arranger, dancer and choreographer.
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Mandé peoples
Mandé is a family of ethnic groups in Western Africa who speak any of the many related Mande languages of the region.
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Mande languages
The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in Africa by the Mandé people and include Maninka, Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai.
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Manding languages
The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are mutually intelligible dialects or languages in West Africa of the Mande family.
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Mandinka language
The Mandinka language (Mandi'nka kango), or Mandingo, is a Mandé language spoken by the Mandinka people of the Casamance region of Senegal, the Gambia, and northern Guinea-Bissau.
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Mandinka people
The Mandinka (also known as Mandenka, Mandinko, Mandingo, Manding or Malinke) are an African ethnic group with an estimated global population of 11 million (the other three largest ethnic groups in Africa being the unrelated Fula, Hausa and Songhai peoples).
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Marimba
The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness of intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.
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Mory Kanté
Mory Kanté (born 29 March 1950) is a Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp.
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Muse (band)
Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994.
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Music of Guinea
Guinea is a West African nation, composed of several ethnic groups.
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Music of Mali
The Music of Mali is, like that of most African nations, ethnically diverse, but one influence predominates; that of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka (from c. 1230 to c. 1600).
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N'Faly Kouyate
N'Faly Kouyate is a Guinean musician.
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Neba Solo
Neba Solo (born 1969) is the stage name of Souleymane Traoré, a musician based in Mali, West Africa.
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Ngoni (instrument)
The ngoni or "n'goni" is a string instrument originating in West Africa.
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Niagassola
Niagassola is a town and sub-prefecture in the Siguiri Prefecture in the Kankan Region of north-eastern Guinea.
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Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band, formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979.
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Origin of Symmetry
Origin of Symmetry is the second studio album by English rock band Muse, released on 17 July 2001 by Mushroom Records and Taste Media.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.
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Pincez Tous vos Koras, Frappez les Balafons
"Pincez tous vos koras, frappez les balafons" known also as "Le Lion rouge" is the national anthem of Senegal.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.
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Raheel Sharif
Raheel Sharif (Urdu:; born 16 June 1956),, is a retired four-star rank general in the Pakistan Army who served as the 9th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army, from 29 November 2013 to 29 November 2016.
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Rail Band
The Rail Band is a Malian band formed in 1970; it was later known as Super Rail Band, Bamako Rail Band or, most comprehensively and formally, Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako.
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Rattle (percussion instrument)
A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.
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Richard Bona
Richard Bona (born 28 October 1967 in Minta, Cameroon) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist.
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Rokia Traoré
Rokia Traoré (born January 26, 1974) is a Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Salif Keita
Salif Keïta (born August 25, 1949) is an afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.
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Senegal
Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.
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Senufo people
The Senufo people, also known as Siena, Senefo, Sene, Senoufo, Syénambélé and Bamana, are a West African ethnolinguistic group.
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Sharp (music)
In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
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Sikasso
Sikasso is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region.
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Sosso Empire
The Sosso Empire was a twelfth-century Kaniaga kingdom of West Africa.
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Soumaoro Kanté
Soumaoro Kanté (var.: Sumanguru Kanté) was a 13th-century king of the Sosso people.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Stefon Harris
Stefon Harris (born March 23, 1973) is an American jazz vibraphonist.
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Struck idiophone
Struck idiophones is one of the categories of idiophones (that is, any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes) that are found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Suleyman (mansa)
Suleyman Keita was mansa of the Mali Empire from 1341 to 1360.
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Sundiata Keita
Sundiata Keita (Mandinka, Malinke, Bambara) (1217 – c. 1255) (also known as Manding Diara, Lion of Mali, Sogolon Djata, son of Sogolon, Nare Maghan and Sogo Sogo Simbon Salaba) was a puissant prince and founder of the Mali Empire.
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Susu people
The Susu people, also called Soso or Soussou, are a West African ethnic group, one of the Mandé peoples living primarily in Guinea and Northwestern Sierra Leone, particularly in Kambia District.
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The Gambia
No description.
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Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté (born August 10, 1965) is a Malian kora player.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Upper East Region
The Upper East Region is located in north Ghana and is the second smallest of 10 administrative regions in Ghana, occupying a total land surface of 8,842 square kilometers or 2.7 per cent of the total land area of Ghana.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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World music
World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.
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Xalam
Xalam (in Serer, or khalam in Wolof) is a traditional stringed musical instrument from West Africa.
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Xylophone
The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Zaire
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire (République du Zaïre), was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balafon
