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Talking Drum Master, Ghana School Builder, Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family

August 4, 2010

Mohammed Alidu has ways of making drums talk. Centuries-old ways passed down through dozens of generations of Bizungs, the hereditary talking drum masters of Northern Ghana. These ways turn drum strokes into speech, transmit instructive proverbs and ancient histories, and spark new exuberantly danceable songs. Alidu takes the talking drums of his past into new territory ...