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[davidognomo]

thaks all you guys

[Waraba]

Paul, you are 1 post away from 400. Care to respond and hit the target?

[michi]

For the 400th post, I'd expect a post of epic proportions. At least "War and Peace" type of size...

Cheers,

Michi.

[bubudi]

Sometimes I think our attempts at connecting the dots are ... futile. (speaking of my own attempts; not anyone else's.) Africa is so immense and it has so many different cultures; there are probably millions of points of contact that we would never even be able to guess at.

yes, those are very good points.

Another thought: people do reinvent the wheel. (Every day, I think.) Which is another topic entirely, but I believe it very much has to do with creativity, ingenuity, a desire to make something happen, and available materials.[/quote]

again, good points. you can see many of the same patterns again and again in various countries that are divided by seas and no shared history. it's often hard to tell what was adopted, ported or adapted, and what was invented independently as a result of similar conditions.

As to how, when and where that all happens, only the people from a given location are going to know. I'd think one would have to spend some time - serious time - in a village or town or city to get a feel for these things. (Something I'll likely never be able to do, but what the hey.)

i suspect even that wouldn't be nearly enough.

however, seeing that the bara (bamana instrument) has sege-sege, and that abdoulaye diakite learned the bamana style of djembe drumming, it would be helpful to ask some old bamana masters from the villages if they ever heard of a code of use for segesege.

[bubudi]

For the 400th post, I'd expect a post of epic proportions. At least "War and Peace" type of size...

it should be written in malinke or bambara at the very least