In Ivory Coast, the return of the talking drum or "the return of hope"
Ludivine Blazy, in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
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The Museum of Civilizations, located in Abidjan, will house the talking drum once France returns the sacred work to Côte d'Ivoire.
More than three years after Emmanuel Macron announced the return of the "Djidji Ayokwe" to Abidjan, French senators have adopted a law for its restitution. This represents a concrete prospect of ending a long wait for Ivorians, deprived for more than a century of this object, elevated to the status of a deity.
" Great joy ": this is what the prospect of the return of this sacred drum after more than a century of exile arouses among the Bidjans, the subgroup within the Ebrié community that held the " Djidji Ayokwe ," is about. Guy Djagoua, chief of the village of Bidjan-Té and spokesperson for his community, was keen to share this feeling when he brought his peers together in early May, five days after the French Senate announced that a bill had been passed to signify the definitive restitution of the " talking drum ."
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