African Banjo - Nigeria

I met this man in Eastern Nigeria, and he was the only one i saw in my travels who played something resembling a banjo, and he played it clawhammer style! He called it Jukun and I believe he was from Northern Nigeria - that area is very nomadic. I heard him playing and had to go find him! Check out the other clips with lyrics, his explanation in pidgin English, etc.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• banjo
• clawhammer
• africa
• nigeria
• folk
• roots

[snark9]

the name of this video is stupid. nigeria is the birthplace of the banjo. all banjos are african banjos.

[BrunoEspo]

goes to show you don´t need much to make some beautiful music. thanx for posting these ...truly authentic stuff :o)

[themastiff]

@snark9 no need to be rude,

its true that the modern banjo originated from Africa but it was in America that it developed into the recognizable instrument that it is today in American folk styles

[CooperLee]

@snark9 oOOoOooh the name of the video is stuuuupiiipitthtththth.....loo­k at ME, I know the origin of the banjo and you're STUPID for naming the video thiithththt. Chill out, Robocop.

[VraiDiouf]

Nigeria needs more of this and to stop being Westernized, this is more traditional I'm happy for this.

[bulgogi1212]

Awesome!

[gioj3]

@BrunoEspo There's beautiful music because life is so special and amazing, creation and mysteries of how it had come to be. The complete magic and all the great understandings of humanity. Different cultures, races, skins, creatures and all on one gigantic rock in space, a tiny spec compared to the nebula and space rifts out there the size of galaxies and even bigger and so on. And then there is some guy who just plucks a few strings.

[johnjtheoriginal]

we put too much things in the trash; clever people know what to do

[54markl]

@AromaticDogwood Whites, and everybody on earth, comes from Ethiopia. This is not disputed at all. Neanderthals came from Africa. Cromagnon Man came from Africa. There wasn't even such a thing as separate races until 10,000 BC. Before that time, everyone alive was black. What part of what I said do you find hard to believe? Don't tell me you believe in Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden! If you do, you're still mired in the Dark Ages, and you'll never know much about anything.

[AromaticDogwood]

@54markl i never said you were white, black, asian, etc. and yes, no one really does know. i can find books that back up all the hypotheses i mentioned and then some. don't believe everything that you read. i only believe what i can see with my own eyes and sometimes not even then. "know" and "believe" are strong words that are thrown around too often. and yeah, i've yet to see a black dude or any other ethnicity tell me that aryans are descendents of alien gods; plenty of whites have however

[54markl]

@AromaticDogwood What "white people do"? Uh, I am white, Irish as a matter of fact. Looks like you're not as smart as you think you are. "No one knows where anyoune comes from?" Dumbshits who never read books don't know. If the shoe fits, wear it.

[AromaticDogwood]

@54markl you say all this like it's a fact. the truth is that no one knows where anyone came from and you can' pick and choose "facts" to fit your afro-centric hypotheses. this is the same shit white people do when they talk about aryans coming from space or japs coming from the sun god, etc. the only thing any of this proves is that we're all human and we all love to pat ourselves on the back over bullshit myths that congratulate our ethnicities... the one thing we CANNOT determine, ourselves.