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Recording of the week: Friction drum song from Botswana

This week’s selection comes from Dr. Janet Topp Fargion, Head of Sound and Vision. This song, based on the lyric ‘The children of the traditional doctor can kill the medical doctor’, is performed by Sebata on the sevuikivuiki friction drum and other Mbukushu villagers in the Tsodilo Hills, in the…


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