Reenactment of African Slave Camp Music

I am from California and I went to Ghana in the Spring of 2008. I toured northern Ghana where I took this footage. This site is five hundred or so years old. The far reaching desert and the barren landscape was the spot where colonialists kept their first slaves. They didn't have walls or buildings to keep them enclosed from the outside world, but the desert served as a barrier to escape. If a slave tried to escape, they would surely die of starvation, dehydration or heat exhaustion.
The slaves' drums were taken away and for lack of better tools, the slaves then played the rocks they lived and worked on. You can see the grooves in the giant boulders where they have been chipped from the music. They didn't have their drums, so they used the hard earth.
The men that play them now do so for money and to educate those who come to see them in the middle of nowhere.

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• Africa
• slave
• ghana
• drum
• song
• rocks
• desert
• upper
• volta

[darrouken]

Man, these brothers are jamming. I have to admit this is the best Rock music i've heard in a long time.

[elainebmack]

I started to read some comments but saw too much stupidity. I'll just watch the video, and appreciate these young men who have taken the time to perform and explain their music.

[kianakeino]

@RAYJENKTY what u trying to say!

[thebeautifulways]

@elainebmack

Here here! people are always saying something stupid

just to get others riled up, yet someone falls for it every time!

[rakcochrane]

Amazing!  Thanks for sharing this.

[RAYJENKTY]

Such TNB. Instead of getting the job like humans, niggers would rather pound on rocks.

[monsterroxs20]

i really like this my music class is doing african slave songs its fun to learn about how and what kind of thing they did we r also learning to sing in a frican language fun fun fun

[cvsporn]

this reenactment would be more real if the gentlemen had shackles 

[MsTDDM]

LMBOO say Rock music!!.... I love my black people! Whites to!

[nickiz1]

they need to here a lill boys 2 men ! and learn to beatbox XD

[girlygirlgloss]

@stonerminmcjoe  that actually mad me lol!