There are many types of musical instruments that are depicted within the relationship of Traditional West African Dancing.
Musical Instruments are one of the key elements to building a relationship with the West African dancer.
Besides using the voice, which has been developed to use various techniques extended beyond the traditions.
African musical instruments include a wide array of drums, slit gongs, rattles, double bells as well as melodic instruments like string instruments,|Kora] as well as fiddle, many types of xylophone such as the mbira and different types of wind instrument like flutes and trumpets.
Drums used in African traditional music include tama talking drums, bougarabou and djembe in West Africa , water drums in Central Africa and West Africa, and the different types of ngoma drums (pronounced by some "engoma") in Central and Southern Africa . Other percussion instruments include many rattles and shakers, such as the kosika, rainsticks, bells and woodsticks. Many cultures use song and dance to ward off evil spirits, and pay respects to good spirits, the dead, and ancestors.
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