Ayub Ogada-"Africa Calling" (Kenya)

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Posted in 2008:

Jamiecrai- on what instrument hes playing?

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GiobbiT- Nyatiti

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PantheraAtrox- Beautiful sweet sound! This music flows from the heart, love it.

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Posted in 2009:

angelinaadega- Love Luo music, the nyatiti sounds too good to be true :) :)

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funktech-holy sound...like this so much!!

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SatyagrahaFaithLove- This song is unbelievably lovely and bursting with energy! :)) I love these musicians-they are so gifted☻♥☺

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armadrum- Awesome! Good music!

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Jauriri9- Beautiful Luo sounds!

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telewheels-This is a great song, and he is very gifted ... I heard that he wen back to live in Kenya and gave up commercial music. Shame ... this is excellent.

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Posted in 2010:

dbadagna- You should add the name of this instrument: nyatiti -- in your tags for this video so people looking for this Kenyan musical instrument can find this video.

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anosognosico-please add the title of this song to deion!
Wa Winjigo Ero

thanks for sharing this video!

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verityandstu - First heard Ayub on Tony Levin's World Diary album - something life-giving about the music!

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CushiticSomalianMale: @verityandstu
you might be right.. but remember Luo is not the only tribe in Africa that uses this instrument, because this instrument was used by my ancestors in Somalia, and us Somalian in south-Somalia near the border with Kenya, we still use this instrument in times of celebrations in Somalia.. besides we cal this instrument, Gantal and Shareero.. 2 names for it... but it means the same.

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leftysergeant- @CushiticSomalianMale It is also the royal instrument of the Baganda kings and appears as the obukano and litungu among other tribes in Kenya and Tanzania. In Ethiopia and Eritrea, it is the "k'rar," but is usually played by strumming all the strings at once with the right hand while blocking all but one or two with the left. In Arab countries, it is the simsimiyah. It apparently originated in Sumeria as did most African stringed instruments aside from the fiddles (masenko and segaba.0

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CushiticSomalianMale - @leftysergeant well some things i agree with.. but the instrument originated in the Nile Valley = Africa not Sumeria... but the Sumerians got incfluenced by kemetians=ancient egyptians, Nubians and Cushites = my peoples = all Hamitic peoples.. so again i agree with some things you had to say, it seems you done your homework son... but dont try to distort obviouss historical facts.. ok

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leftysergeant -CushiticSomalianMale Not supported by archaeological evidence. There is evidence of the lyre and lute in Sumeria before they reached Egypt, roughly 2000 years before the appear in the Egyptian records. It deies all logic that they would appear over such a great distance and leave such a surprising gap. Sounds like someone concocted a myth about as great as that of Aryan cultural superiority. Clearly, African peoples did develop musically a lot faster than Europeans.

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LanguageLuo- GROUND
Business and money can turn Luo Culture into an international piece of circus.
1. A harp that is not placed and played ONLY on the GROUND is not NYATITI. It is not Luo Culture.
2. The NYATITI is a Luo sacred instrument that obeys very STRICT rules among which are the fact that its player must play (touch) it only if he is SITTING on a special stool called "kom janyatiti". This chair is so sacred that it is always wrapped and carried around with great care and respect.

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