Afropop Worldwide. It was a superb program about “drum speech”–a fascinating subject that has interested ethnomusicologists for a long time. Ned Sublette writes about it in his masterful study, Cuba ...

In recent time, global and local brands that want to resonate with the people, have suddenly realized the need to connect with the people through drumming. For instance, in announcing the credential ...

A drum is a masterpiece work of art. Drums are forged out of woods and animal skins. Every drum has a culture and tradition attached to it. The origin of drums can be dated back to a time when ...

The Yoruba culture of drum-talking is an agent of cultural preservation and an indirect means of preserving food sovereignty, a don at North West University, Prof. Lere Amusan, has said. Amusan, chair ...

A rapid drum tattoo; then an improbably long female cry of “Sango-o-o”, protracted into a stumbling rhythm over which the voice shouts half-narrative, half-praise; a mixture that eventually resolves ...

NàìjáTreks: What is your original English name? Ayantunde: I am not English. I am German. My German name is Anselm Ramacher. I was born in Remscheid, Northwestern Germany, I grew up in the south ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The prospect of an hour's drumming, even if it is the Yoruba drums from Nigeria, will send most people rushing for their ambient albums.

'Giants die in our midst unnoticed. A grand monumental tree falls in the garden and its like nobody even knew there was a tree.' So begins a recent obituary to a man who is at the heart of our program ...

In the Yoruba faith, there is a thing called destiny. The story of how Mark Underwood, an African American from Indiana, gets to Puerto Rico and becomes Otura Mun, a Babaláwo priest in the Yoruba ...

Remember the famous Oyo State radio station Radio O Y O signature tune ‘Ti Olubadan ba ku, tani o joye?’ It was produced with the aid of a talking drum. There are different kinds of drums for ...