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The kora (Manding languages: ߞߐߙߊ kɔra [1]) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. [2] A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It has features of the lute and harp.
Xalam (in Serer, khalam in Wolof, and Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli) is a traditional lute from West Africa with 1 to 5 strings. [2] The xalam is commonly played in Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Western Sahara.
The akonting ([ə'kɔntiŋ], [1] or ekonting in French transliteration) is the folk lute of the Jola people, found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.It is a string instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string, akin to the short fifth "thumb string" on the five-string banjo.
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: "West African plucked lutes such as the konting, khalam, and the nkoni (which was noted by Ibn Baṭṭūṭah in 1353) may have originated in ancient Egypt. The khalam is claimed to be the ancestor of the banjo. Another long-necked lute is the ramkie of South Africa." [15]
Gassire's Lute is an epic by the Soninke people of West Africa.It was collected by Leo Frobenius and published in 1921. An English prose translation was made by Douglas Fox, published in African Genesis (first printed 1937).
The pluriarc, also called paata, mapu, luku, [1] kissanga, and bow lute [2] is a stringed musical instrument of West Africa, classified as a type of lute.It has a hollow body and several curved, pliable necks made of reeds.
The resonator of these West African lutes may be made of wood, metal (such as a discarded can), hide, or a half-calabash gourd. [3] Non-griot lutes are not restricted by heredity, and are used for many social purposes, most commonly hunting. [3] It is likely that one or more of these instruments is the ancestor of the African American banjo. [4]
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