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    Seydou Are Gindou playing the 2-string konou lute of the Dogon. Mali, 2007 (Jayme Stone)
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    The seperewa harp-lute of the Ashanti. Ghana, late 19th century. (Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, Belgium)
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    The xalam gesere, the unique gourd-bodied Mandinka griot lute. Gambia, 2006 (Ben Nelson)
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    Pluriarc (bow-lute). Mali, 1911 (Shlomo Pestcoe)
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    The 3-string gombri, a North African plucked lute of West African heritage. Tunisia, c. 1905 (Shlomo Pestcoe)
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    The calabash-bodied gullum plucked lute of the Kilba. Nigeria, c.1970 (Shlomo Pestcoe)
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    The 4-string Creole Bania, the oldest extant banjo. Suriname (South America), c. 1773-77 (Rijksmuseum, Leiden, Holland)
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    The 2-string molooru plucked lute, with a calabash body, of the Fulbe (Fula, Fulani, Peul). Niger. (D.W. Arnott. Grove Music Online)
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    Bouba Diedhiou playing the entofen form of the ekonting with an oval gourd body. Casamance (southern Senegal), 2005 (Nick Bamber)
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    Ekona Jatta playing the ekonting, the folk lute of the Jola, to Bougarabou drums and percussion. Gambia, 2003 (Ulf Jagfors)
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    Atongo Zimba of Ghana playing the 2-string kologo (also koloko and koliko) of the Frafra.
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    The 2-string gurmi of the Hausa, Nigeria
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    West African instruments Gray & Dochard's "Travels in Western Africa... from the River Gambia... to the River Niger" (1825)
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    Francis Mendy playing the Manjak bunchundo accompanied by drumming on a palm wine bottle. Banjul, Gambia, 2004 (Ulf Jagfors)
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    Daniel Jatta on his ekonting and Ulf Jagfors on his 1860s fretless 5-string banjo.
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