A sacred drum that once served as a powerful communication tool for communities in Ivory Coast has returned home more than a century after it was seized during French colonial rule. Known as the ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — France returned a sacred talking drum looted during the colonial period to Ivory Coast on Friday as part of a nearly decade-old effort by the French government to return ...

Central African languages and our own -- The drums -- How messages are sent on the talking drum -- What's in a name? -- Ourselves as others see us -- Births, marriages and deaths -- Sporting events -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Photo of the Djidji Ayokwe, an ancestral talking drum of the Atchan people living in southern Ivory Coast, taken from the Ivory ...

Harris-Stowe State University will host The Talking Drum Symposium: “Voices from Africa and Abroad,” Wednesday, February 13, 2013, from 6-8 p.m. in the Emerson Performance Center’s Bank of America ...

Professor Coleman A. Jordan teaches architecture at Morgan State University. For over two years, he has worked closely with students and alumni from the Baltimore HBCU, as well as from Tuskegee and ...