Pics

Some pictures from last week:

These are the guys that have been teaching me the traditional instruments. The instrument on the left is the umuduri, the center instrument is the inanga(I labeled it wrong in an earlier post) and the one on the right is the ikembe.



The inanga was traditionally played at night. The player would also sing along, but he whisper sings. It sounds amazing, and Im sad that the internet is a little too slow to upload the video of it. The songs are in an old style of kirundi, and they have a meaning that is difficult to figure out, even for native kirundi speakers.


These are the Burundian drummers.

One of the local universities was dedicating their new building and the president of Burundi came to dedicate it. We weren't allowed to take pictures of him, but I think that the drummers are more exciting anyway.