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

Aralola Olamuyiwa, also known as Ara, a famous talking drummer and cultural ambassador for the Ooni of Ife, has recalled how people tried to stop her from playing the talking drum.

A singer, Dammy Kush, has said that being able to play the talking drum has had a great impact on her music. She told Sunday Scoop, “The talking drum is one of my favourite instruments. I also ...

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 ...

He said, “Playing the talking drum makes me connect with the crowd easily. And, my fans love the ‘vibes’ that it brings. “I love to be unique and the talking drum helps me to be different.

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún ...

According to a new study, the dùndúns drum -- in the hands of a skilled percussionist -- can accurately mimic the speech patterns of Yorùbá, a tonal language most prominent in southern Nigeria.

The scientists also distinguish four modes through which the talking drum connects music and language - rhythm, singing, drum talking-performative and drum talking-direct.

As a child, Oluwakemi Famugbode Adetula took to playing the drums. Now an adult and mother of three boys, she’s blazing a trail with her Gangan (talking drum) on a path traditionally meant for ...

Alongside this desire for immediacy, some old traditions do carry on. In Alidu's family, the talking drum is an art, passed from generation to generation of bizung, the King's talking drum master.