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

The French National Assembly has finally approved on 7 July 2025 the restitution to C ocirc;te d 39;Ivoire of the talking drum Djidji Ay ocirc;kw eacute;, which the French Army stole from the Ebrie ...

French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d'Ivoire the Djidji Ayôkwé talking drum, which colonial troops seized from the Ebrié tribe in 1916.

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.

The talking drum had been in the care of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris. In late 2018, Ivory Coast asked Paris to return the Djidji Ayokwe among 148 works of art taken during the ...

“But I wanted something different, so I started learning how to play the talking drum. People I asked to teach me were skeptical about teaching me because I am a woman. So I am self-taught.

“But I wanted something different, so I started learning how to play the talking drum. People I asked to teach me were skeptical about teaching me because I am a woman. So I am self-taught.

Morgan State University has become the first HBCU to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale with “ReCall & Response,” a pavilion shaped like a “talking drum” that honors the ...

Talking Drum Studio opened in Liberia in 1997, initially creating programmes on election education and polling procedures. As renewed fighting escalated into a full-blown civil war, the studio focused ...

The drummer also revealed that some drums are only suppose to be played by men but she said not the talking drum. "I don't know why, but don't forget that we have a history and our forefathers ...