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Life before captureKofifor Kofi


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Sometimes my uncle shows us how to play his drum. He plays for the chief of the Fanti and is very, very good. He even helped us kill a goat so we could make a new drum for him. He might let me have his old one but I don't know yet.


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A small drum from Akim, Accra, Ghana.
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