There are drums grouped in families for the purpose of talking to each other ... who brought the African origins of Cuban music to the world's attention with his 30 books and his lifetime of ...

One of the best-known African drums is the West African djembe. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered in goat skin.

He kicked things off with a groovy medley of ‘On Form,’ led by the pulse of the talking drums, before strutting onto the main ...

Listen for the talking drum, one of several instruments collected by Howard University professor Lorenzo Dow Turner. His groundbreaking research told stories of sounds and songs transported from ...

Stories about white families fostering African children, identity, language and jollof rice lead Seun Matiluko to ask is it possible to be authentically British and west African?