The annual Congo Square Rhythms Festival is returning this year, bringing some of the African cultural traditions practiced in the 19th century to 21st century New Orleans.
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ABC News reports that France has repatriated a sacred talking drum looted from West Africa’s Ivory Coast in 1916 by French colonial authorities. The 950-pound drum, known as Djidji Ayôkwé, or “panther ...
In a heartfelt ceremony that celebrated tradition and unity, seven level-three students from the Guru Gopalan School of Drums ...
Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners ...
France returns the sacred Djidji Ayôkwé drum to Ivory Coast, over a century after it was seized by colonial authorities in ...
It ⁠was used by the Atchan people, native to southern Ivory Coast, ​to alert locals to forced labour operations being carried out by ​colonisers and to mobilise fighters.
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 cultural artifacts to African ...
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