Jola vs Akonting - What's the difference?
jola | akonting |
(musical instrument) The 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.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 2, author=The New York Times, title=New CDs, work=New York Times
, passage=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. }}
As a noun akonting is
(musical instrument) the 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.jola
Not English
Jola has no English definition. It may be misspelled.akonting
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(en noun) (wikipedia akonting)citation