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Ma Womi Roro composed by Orlando Owoh is a very exciting and lengthy album to listen to. He was firstly hired by Nigeria's Kola Ogunmola Theatre Group to play drums and sing and thereafter, Orlando Owoh became a highlife musician and band leader.

The shekere is an ancient traditional percussion instrument of West Africa. Popular from Senegal to Nigeria, they are a central feature of traditional Ewe music. In Ghana and Togo they are called “axatse”, in Mali and Guinea as “djabara”.

 

The calabash is a dried gourd which is hollowed, cleaned and threaded with small shells. They produce crisp or sandy effects to depending on how they’re played.

Roots recounts the tale of Kunta Kinte - a youngster taken from The Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave - and seven ages of his relatives in the United States. Kunta has a normally troublesome however free youth in his village, Juffure. His village subsists on farming, and at times they need more food, as the climate is cruel. However Kunta is encircled by love and customs. One morning when he is cutting wood to make a drum, he is captured. After a terrible journey across the Atlantic, he is sold in Annapolis to John Waller. Kunta attempts to flee multiple times, and after the fourth endeavor part of his right foot is cut off.

Isaiah Kehinde Dairo known as IK Dairo composed the song Salome. His songs covered a range of topics. Salome is a love song in praise of a young woman with eyes like traps and teeth as white as cowries.