The banjo is a key instrument in Western folk music — from US bluegrass to Irish trad — and over the past 20 years, research into the roots of this three-stringed instrument have revealed its west African lute origins, with two instruments, the ngoni and the ekonting, now understood to be the closest ancestors to the banjo.
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