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It is a term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music.

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Afrobeat

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It is a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.

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Apala (Akpala)

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It is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil.

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Axe

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It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of marcha, reggae, and calypso.

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Axe

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It is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.

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Jit

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It is a popular form of South African music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.

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Jive

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It is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms. A drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and accordion are
used along with the traditional dun-dun (talking drum or squeeze drum).

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Juju

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It is a music style that begun in Zaire in the late 1980s popularized by Kanda Bongo Man

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Kwassa Kwassa

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In this dance style, the hips move back and
forth while the arms move following the hips.

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Kwassa Kwassa

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It is a South African three-chord township music of the 1930s-1960s which evolved into African Jazz.

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Marabi

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It is characterized by simple chords in varying
vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period.

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Marabi

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It is the combination of strong rhythms of African percussion instruments and Portuguese melodies.

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Maracatu

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This form of music is being paraded along
the streets by up to 100 participants.

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Maracatu

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It is one of the most widely performed musical forms of the late 19th century.

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Blues

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Its melodies are expressive and soulful.

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Blues

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The slaves and their descendants used to sing these as they work in the fields.

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Blues

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It is a popular music genre of the 1950s and 1960s which originated in the African-American community throughout the United States

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Soul

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It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz.

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Soul

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It originated in the Unites States and created by African-American slaves.

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Spiritual

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It is also known as “Negro Spiritual”.

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Spiritual

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It became a means of imparting Christian values and a way of venting their hardships as slaves.

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Spiritual

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It is likened to a question-and-answer sequence in human communication.

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Call and Response

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The slaves used to sing these songs while simultaneously doing all their tasks in a day.

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Call and Response

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[CLASSIFICATION] Sound is produced by the body of the instrument vibrating.

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Idiophones

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[CLASSIFICATION] Sound is produced by the vibration of a tightly stretched membrane.

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Membranophones

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[CLASSIFICATION] Sound is produced by the vibration of tongues of metal, wood or other material.

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Lamellaphone

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[CLASSIFICATION] Sound is produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.

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Chordophones

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[CLASSIFICATION] Sound is produced through the vibration of air.

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Aerophones

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It is a single bell or multiple bells and is considered as the oldest samba instrument based on West African Yoruba single or double bells.

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Agogo

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It has the highest pitch of any of the bateria instruments.

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Agogo

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It is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the
gourd.

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Shekere

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It is a hollow percussion instrument.

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Slit/Log drum

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Although known as a drum, it is not a true drum but is an idiophone.

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Slit/Log drum

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It is usually carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or more slits in the top.

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Slit/Log drum

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It is a hollowed cylinder of wood with a narrow longitudinal opening or slit whose edges are struck to produce a deep, sonorous tone.

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Atingting Kon (Slit Gong)

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They are considered to be portraits of ancestors
so that when played, it is the voices of awakened ancestors which resonate from their interior chamber.

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Atingting Kon (Slit Gong)

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It is a kind of wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone which plays melodic tunes.

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Balafon

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In the 16th century, it became a real art at the royal court of Sikasso/ Mali and was flourishing under the reign of a generous king.

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Balafon

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It refers to African music using their bodies as instruments.

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Body percussion

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It is used to send messages to announce births, deaths, marriages, sporting events, dances, initiations or war.

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Talking drum

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It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands.

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Djembe

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The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered with goat skin.

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Djembe

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The West African ___ is one of the best-known African drums.

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Djembe

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It is a set of plucked tines or keys mounted on a sound board.

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Mbira (Kalimba/Thumb Piano)

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It is being played by holding the instrument
in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.

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Mbira (Kalimba/ Thumb Piano)

46
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They used this instrument to drive away evil spirits since it is believed that it was a vector of communication with ancestors and spirits.

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Mbira (Kalimba/ Thumb Piano)

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It is believed that the drums can carry direct messages to the spirits after the death of a loved one.

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Talking Drum

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It is a popular traditional instrument of the Shona people in Zimbabwe.

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Array Mbira

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It is a hand-crafted instrument with a unique harp or bell-like sound.

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Array Mbira

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It is a radical redesign of the African Mbira and it consists of up to 150 metal tines attached to a wooden board, comprising up to five octaves.

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Array Mbira

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It is being played by holding the instrument
in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.

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Mbira (Kalimba/Thumb Piano)

52
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It is the ancestor of all string instruments.

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Musical Bow

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It is the oldest and one of the most widely used string instruments of Africa.

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Musical Bow

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It consists of a single string attached to each end of a curved stick, similar to a bow and arrow.

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Musical Bow

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It is an African fiddle played with a bow, a small
wooden stick, or plucked with the fingers.

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Zeze

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It has one or two strings made of steel or bicycle brake wire.

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Zeze

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It is from Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Zeze

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It is a type of flute which is widely used throughout Africa and either vertical or side-blown.

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Fulani

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It is made from the horn of the kudu antelope.

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Kudu Horn

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Its sound releases a mellow and warm sound that adds a unique African accent to their music.

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Kudu Horn

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They are usually fashioned from a single tube closed at one end and blown like a bottle.

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Fulani

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