The Akonting-Performance of Poem on History of the Banjo

[KillinDaWelfareMCs]

cool

[paapakobe]

I really enjoy your presentation Mr Steve!! You are very talented and a great adventurer

[blewj]

@paapakobe I agree. From head to to, this man plays well.

[bkbj95]

For one the banjo got its design from that but the africans didnt make it.......southern americans did which i am and is proud to be on

[oramikleepunk]

@bkbj95 Have you ever been to west Africa?

[thotsins]

@oramikleepunk Probably not, most people attempt to talk about what is or isn't african without even knowing anything about us or our cultures, then when they finally do see it they're like "oh! I didn't know that". lol

[paapakobe]

@thotsins True. It's relatively new for 'western/northern' people to openly admit the direct roots of so many things from Africa. I'm really enjoying this guys presentation. He has the spirit of a person who loves to learn about people & share it. Appreciate appropriately, not just appropriate appreciably hahaha

[paapakobe]

@bkbj95 I heard that enslaved Africans lived in the Southern USA but at that time & for a few 100s years everything they made, music, dances, inventions, even children, were claimed by the slave owners - after slavery a lot of trademarks & patents got stolen too. But metal banjo is really cool & I respect the American players a LOT. So amazing. I hope to get banjo one day to play traditional music of akoning, xalam, ngoni. Kind of like reverse engineering!

[gitfiddlejoe]

FANTASTIC, instructional as well as entertaining!

[Its8Me8Einstein]

Its not awesome Its 1000X awesome

[lizabug514]

Wow! Is there anything you can't do? This is really great Steve! However, I think this means that either you never sleep or you don't have enough to do. Give me a call and I'll give you a list. :-) But seriously, really well done! Congrats!

[JoshZaslow]

Thanks Steve!

[lulu1227]

thanks for sharing that ... it's so fun!

[dsummersl]

I can definitely envision a bigger production of this, involving dancers, staging, etc. Keep working on it!

[gracie1ella]

wow, Steve! This is awesome : )