LifeWay TV - "The Adungu"

The Adungu is a traditional African instrument played in this video by some Acholi Christians. The Acholi are a people group in northern Uganda. The video was shot on a recent mission trip sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources. More information about the trip is available at www.lifeway.com/news

[@mariaaool1258]

Thank you for the gospel in Jesus name 🙏

[@SrNetsWalker]

Can not understand how can stay without dancing this the two 'invited' woman seatted infront !!! This music is pure feeling !!! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[@missbritt288]

Ahh its a familiar feeling .. reminds me of some of our early stringband music from the southern united states. Africa in my heart .

[@ayugisylvia3679]

The best of adungu I have ever heard

[@malldeb]

Beautiful Rendition

[@Onyokuman]

I love this!!!

[@jjoulet4460]

Wow very nice

[@visionexpander4me]

well done bro keep the good work we are encourage

[@BarbnGrill]

Reminds me of Hawaii and Jamaica

[@nmakala9]

we Africans do not write anything musical on paper. It all comes from the heart

[@skellagyook]

@tontonsossolito There are independent inventions elsewhere(eg:necked harps in the near east and china)and there is evidence for independent invention within Africa perhaps twice or more. Harp-like instruments are likely fairly old in west and central Africa and some may have been played by the Bantu (Gabonese are mostly western Bantu).before their arrival in E. Africa. Sone harps may also be old among E. African, Nilosaharan speaking groups such as the Alur(who play the Adungu).

[@lakerbabson]

sehr GUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

[@skellagyook]

@tontonsossolito 3 cont. The musical bow may be as old as the first hunting bows, invented in south Africa at least 70k bc. West and central Africa have ancient musical traditions, perhaps distantly akin to, via some common subsaharan root ca. the mesolithic, but quite distinct from those of the N. east and Egypt. Components of The former traditions are very old and not in pharonic egypt, eg: the thumb piano, from ca. 3000 bc w.Af. from linguisitic evidence, and some you list.

[@statisticianamuria]

deutschland dude..try out the Thumb Piano too. its called Akogo

[@skellagyook]

I think the Egyptian harp was held with the strings outward. Also, my impression is that the theory of Egyptian origin for this instrument is now generally rejected by scholars. I don't believe there is evidence for Egyptian contact or influence this far south. Necked harps (mostly inward facing) are very widespread in sub-saharan Africa and may be quite ancient there, perhaps also, more than once evolving(as all stringed instruments ultimately have ) independently from the musical bow.

[@Onyokuman]

The Acholi or Luo ( South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, parts of DRC and Tanzania) can trace thier origin to Ancient Egypt. I totally agree the instruments probably evolved over the years.

[@skellagyook]

@tontonsossolito 2) cont: There is no reason to assume that all subsaharan necked African harps are of Egyptian origin, especially since there is not evidence of pharonic contact in central or w. Africa, direct or otherwise. All stringed instruments come ultimately from the very ancient musical bow, which is shared by almost all human groups including American Indians and Khoisan tribes, and is depicted in both W. European mesolithic and early Neolithic African(chad and s. Algeria 8-6kbc) art.

[@Onyokuman]

Nanga got only six strings,, while adungu got more, others have upto 16 strings.

[@nmakala9]

Please explain to us how you traced all these musical instruments to the middle east.....How do you know what no one else knows...

[@nmakala9]

Pharaonic Egypt had no contact with Africa in South? And yet the first Pharaoh, Narmer Menes was a Sudanese; there are more pyramids in Sudan than there are in Egypt, and as you follow the river Nile, you can see the pyramids becoming progressively bigger, better and newer...Have you ever heard of Meroe? Please quit regurtating the debunked racial bullshit of Henry Breasted.