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Africa 2025
Books, Articles, Africa Mar 20
In 2025, I returned to West Africa to visit djembéfola Famoudou Konaté, and to celebrate the release of his new book. Here are photos and more from the trip.
NH Chronicle
Lessons from West Africa
WMUR’s Karen Meyers sits down with Dave Kobrenski and takes you off the beaten path to explore how an artist and musician is bringing his cultural odyssey home.
Toneholes and Tradition
How a 40,000 year old flute leveled the playing field
Articles, Anthropology Apr 7 2016
Sometime between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago, a group of early humans on a migration route out of Africa, along the corridor of the Danube River valley, carried with them a small but significant object: a flute. Carved from the bone of a griffon vulture, with…