A Kenyan exhibition working with communities in conflict zones offers insights into how Côte d'Ivoire could use the drum for ...

“But I wanted something different, so I started learning how to play the talking drum. People I asked to teach me were skeptical about teaching me because I am a woman. So I am self-taught.

“But I wanted something different, so I started learning how to play the talking drum. People I asked to teach me were skeptical about teaching me because I am a woman. So I am self-taught.

The talking drum had been in the care of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris. In late 2018, Ivory Coast asked Paris to return the Djidji Ayokwe among 148 works of art taken during the ...

The drummer also revealed that some drums are only suppose to be played by men but she said not the talking drum. "I don't know why, but don't forget that we have a history and our forefathers ...

Adekunle Gold shares a heartwarming video of his daughter, Deja, joyfully playing a talking drum while he cheers her on, sparking an outpouring of love from fans.

Morgan State University has become the first HBCU to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale with “ReCall & Response,” a pavilion shaped like a “talking drum” that honors the ...

Talking Drum Studio opened in Liberia in 1997, initially creating programmes on election education and polling procedures. As renewed fighting escalated into a full-blown civil war, the studio focused ...

Alidu takes the talking drums of his past into new territory with his American band, the Bizung Family, on Land of Fire (self-release; September 16, 2010). Recorded from Madagascar to the Rockies, the ...