TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE
The praise singers are always around the forge when gold is being transformed. They accompany the customers to workshop. Their presence helps old Laye in carrying out operation successfully when they play the coral. Laye says:
Indeed, the praise singer participated in a curious – I was going to say direct, effective way in the work. He, too was intoxicated with the joy of creation; and plucked his harp like a man inspired… he had become a man who creates his song under the influence of some very personal interior necessity (p.30).
The praise singer plays the Douga with the chant, which have some ritual steps and certain precautions. Old Laye is mindful of the ritualistic nature of the dance as the steps forward with a horn filled with magic power uttering a cry of triumph with a ram’s horn filled with magic substances on his left hand to signify success.
His friends and customers congratulate him and join the celebration and a bowl of cocoa kolanuts is passed. This takes us to another level of how significant kolanut is in Africa setting. It symbolizes life and bound the people together.
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