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  • France Returns Looted ‘Talking Drum’ to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

    In a ceremony held on Friday at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris, France officially returned a drum known as the “talking drum” or Djidji Ayôkwé, to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. The news was reported by French newspaper Le Monde. The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out read more

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    France Returns Looted ‘Talking Drum’ to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire