Ever wonder how people got there messages out before technology?

YOU THINK HUMANS ARE SO SMART because we use technology?

Screw that! you don’t know how talented and smart we were before technology took over our lives.

World Class Drummer Yacub Addy from Ghana.

You think we humans are so smart because #STEM or #STEAM ?

World Class Drummer Yacub Addy from Ghana.
Composer, choreographer, and educator, the 73-year-old Addy is the senior player in a well-known drumming family from Accra, Ghana. In 1957, the year of Ghana’s independence, Addy organized and led the first public stage performance of traditional Ghanaian music and dance in Accra. Over the last 40 years, his music has spread across the world.

HEY! ever wonder how we did it WITHOUT a typing, a newspaper, a phone ???

World Class Drummer Yacub Addy from Ghana.

NEWS FLASH: We are not as smart as we used to be before technology allowed us to forget!

World Class Drummer Yacub Addy from Ghana.

We used to know how to get messages out to our neighbors using the talking drum.

World Class Drummer Yacub Addy is from Ghana. His grandson tod me that his his grandfather Yacub was a little boy when his family needed performers for a ceremony where they lived in Ghana.  Up until that time the family  hired drummers to come over and do the job. Something happened and the drummers could not come, they couldn’t make it. So Yacub and his Brothers thought they could manage and do the drumming for themselves and did. That is how the Addy family tradition got started.

Yacub moved to the USA. He also brought his brothers. They played and as time went on became known as the Best Drummers In The World.

MUSIC OF THE ASHANTI

https://folkways.si.edu/music-of-the-ashanti-of-ghana/world/album/smithsonian

https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FW04240.pdf

AND PEOPLE TALK BY WHISTLING – YES THERE IS A WHISTLING LANGUAGE

More than 70 groups across the world who can use whistles to express themselves with all the flexibility of normal speech.