 I'm not gonna do this anymore, man. I'm not gonna do this anymore. Yo, what up everybody? It's your boy Mr. Ghana Baby and I'm back again with another video. This is a simple video. It's time for we young Africans to tell our own story. It's time for we young Africans to know our African story, our African culture and our African word history. We are on our way to go find out the African history. Yeah, you get what I mean? You get what I mean? What's your name? Muhammad. My name is Maya. What is your name? Duru. Wow, in my country, you know Danduru is an insult man. Okay, so you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna meet a young African who is gonna educate us on Gambian culture and arts. Are you Maya? Everybody say are you Maya? Are you Maya? Hey, my brother. How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you too. Are you Maya? Yeah, welcome to the Gambia. Thank you so much. Yeah, welcome. That one is gonna take me around today. Of course. Wow. And welcome to Kajikali crocodile pool and museum. Thank you so much. Where is this place? This is the first entrance and where you have a different masquerade place. Wow. And this type of masquerade is called Nyomi Konkurang. Okay. Nyomi is another place, part of a place in the Gambia where most of these masquerades are mostly found. Wow. And you can see the history of these Nyomi Konkurang. They can tell you that, you know, this is the Mandinka masquerade. Mandinka is a social tribe in the Gambia here that, you know, believe to have this type of masquerade called Nyomi Konkurang. And they said it is a tradition of Nyomi Konkurang. Kanuma normally seen during social ceremonies, like when you have naming ceremonies, or you have initiations. That's the time that this type of masquerade appears in the other part of the country called Nyomi. Wow. You understand? And here is the Jola masquerade. Jola masquerade also is another type of masquerade that is believed to have come from a Jola tribe. You know, in the Gambia here, I think we have seven different type of tribes, if I am not wrong. That you are fuller, you have Jola, you have Mandinkas, you have Seire, you have mangyagos, you have named them, you understand? So this is the Jola masquerade, and this is a typical example of a Jola masquerade, okay? And they said it's a Jola max dancing out during a circumcision ceremony, like in the Gambia here we have the tradition. Normally, you know, when you are very young, they normally take you to the bush, according to the Jola history, that they will initiate you, whereby they will show you the culture and the tradition and the moralities of what needs to be. And here, this is called Fambondi. Fambondi in our local language, meaning a masquerade that appears on his own without someone making that masquerade so far. So when you say Fambondi, it's a Mandinka dialect called a masquerade that always appears, you know, just as by itself, that you can say that okay. And normally when you see, this is the type of masquerade that, you know, the Gambian people normally fear with, because they will tell you that in the history, it normally appears late night, you understand? And sometimes you can see the noise or the sound of this masquerade called Fambondi on top of your ceiling. That some will even believe that, you know, it flies, yeah. And this is the Kumpo. It's another system type of masquerade that is believed to have come from the Jola community, you understand? And they will tell you that it's a Jola masquerade appears mostly during initiation ceremony, like in a newly boy, young boys at the age of maybe seven, we are taking to the booth, initiated, and then this masquerade will mostly appear during those time. And you can see the ways in which it is, you know, prepared and designed. And there is a culture in the Gambia here, they call it Futampaf. Futampaf. Futampaf. And Futampaf is one of the best cultural soul that, you know, one will not love to miss. You will swear, you will see this masquerade with the long stick here, it will place it on the ground and start to rotate in a style way whereby, you know, you will adore and love it so much. So you can see that these are the different types of masquerades so far in the Gambia here. Yeah, this is the Nyomi Kankuran, you have the Kumpo in Jola community, you have Fambondi in the Mandinka community, and then so far, yeah. This is called Jamba Kankuran, yeah. Right from the traditional masquerade so far. And now we are now entering in some of the traditional instruments used by different traditional, you know, tribes in the Gambia. Okay. So here we started with, we call it Simbing. Okay. In our local language, they say it's a seven string bow have in, you know, pentatonic tuning, one plane of string, it's just trying to explain how, you know, it is made. Okay. You can even see that like, it's a seven string. And then so far, they will tell you that these are the, most of the traditional instruments used by different traditional in the Gambia here. Wow. And now you can see they are displaced so far, you can see the other. This is a xylophone, right? Yeah. It's called balafone. Balafone. In the Gambia, but, you know, it's an African xylophone. African xylophone. Yeah. Wow. Mostly it's used by the grids. Okay. Pressing us. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wow. This a beautiful act, man. Like, you know, we just have to appreciate what we have in here. This is Dundun in Ghana. We call it Dundun. This is called Tama. Tama. In the Gambia, here you call it Tama. Tama. Yeah. It's a Mandinka word. Okay. And then in Wolof, it's another traditional ethnic group in the Gambia here, they call it Tama too. Tama. And in Fula, they call it Tamaura. Tamaura. Yeah. That means you have three different kind of language for this. I feel like most African countries have so many things in common. Because if you go to Ghana, we have this kind of drums and we call it like, how do you call it? Dundun. Yeah. That's what I'm actually learning, traveling within African countries. That's why it's very important for us to know the African stories, you know. Wow. These are beautiful, man. Do you have a talking drum? This is a talking drum, eh? Wow. They call it... Bukhara. Bukhara. It is a three different place, three different kind of drums that is used by only one single person. Wow. You can see, even see in the picture, sometimes it might be more than three. Wow. Whereby one person will be displaying these four different type of drums. Amazing. It is mostly used by, you know, the Jolas. The Jolas. It's an ethnic group in the Gambia here that normally use this type of drum. Amazing. Yeah. This one is called tabala or tabulo. It is a Mandinka word. Tabulo means this. Wow. It's a traditional drum too. Wow. You can see in the picture here. Yeah. Normally in our mosque. So you just send us normally you have them there. This is a horn, eh? It's a horn, yeah. Wow. I went the instrument. Yeah. It's amazing. Wow. This is also an instrument? Yeah. Pombo long. It's called Pombo long. It's here. Oh, this is used for the wrestling, eh? They said it's a Jola drum that is covered out of the wood, out of wood and used to entertain in wrestling and circumcision ceremonies. Yeah. Man, I got a lot to learn, man. Wow. And it is used with two sticks. Two sticks. Amazing. This is beautiful. This is beautiful. So all I can tell you is that it's time for us to know that this forms part of our African culture. So it's time for you to learn something every single day. My brother, come, come, come, come. Tell them your name and tell them your name. They don't even know your name. Yeah. Hello viewers. My name is Nyanyi Commander and I am here to be with my colleague in helping him so far. Exactly. You know, the culture and the tradition of the Gambia. I've been following him so far, not today. So that's why I find it deemed necessary to help him so far in knowing the culture and the tradition of this country. Exactly. I am so pleased meeting you, Maya. And I am telling you a big thank you so far. I think we have a fruitful day so far. Yeah. For all, I didn't know so many things and I'm glad that you educated me and I believe that you've educated a lot of people out there. So I just also want to say thank you so much. He's a historian and make sure I'm going to put his Instagram. Make sure you go follow him. Tell him that what Maya told me to follow you. I am Maya. Peace out. That's awesome, bro.