GUIDE OF SÉDHIOU - Cesie

If Africans are said to have "music in their blood", it is certainly
due to the incredible arts of drumming that seems to be a not
further mentionable part of their everyday life for them. It is
an unforgettably mystic
experience to sit under a sky
full of stars, listening to the
traditional drumming of a
djembe player who sings
stories from the rich oral
Manding heritage: about a
husband who turns into a
snake during the night and
kills his wife or about a
woman whose husband
turned his back on her because of his second wife. When she
asks her Marabu, a spiritual guide, how to reconquer her man,
he tells her to get him the milk of a female lion that is
breastfeeding her little ones. As she is capable of this, she is
capable of everything! Worth seeing is also the weekly
gathering of certain Islamic brotherhoods which praise the
Lord by singing and dancing to the sounds of drums that are
played for 3 hours nonstop. It leads people to a very agitated
meditation that shows itself in ecstatic dancing movements
done in groups, men and women apart from each other. After
such an outburst of energy a drummer often has bleeding
fingers or broken playing sticks, but at least he has given it all.
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