akonting
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Jola-Fonyi.
Noun
editakonting (plural akontings)
- A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.
- 2009 March 2, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times[1]:
- But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia.
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editReferences
edit- 2011. Now You See Her. Joey Fielding. Pg. 156.