In the heart of Ghana’s Volta Region, mostly in the southern Volta area of Anlo, where tradition pulses through the land like a steady drumbeat, the Agbadza dance stands as a powerful symbol of ...
Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she ...
Video by Jacob Whatley. The drum’s likely origins date back to the 12th century in Mali, West Africa, Kojo Bey, wrote in “Jembe Revolution: The Birth of the Jembe in America.” “To African Americans in ...