Sounds of Ghana (audio)
Hear the music and voices of Ghana (6.08 minutes)
By Nick Koenig and Spencer Scott
This podcast features original instrumental music recorded by New York University students Nick Koenig and Spencer Scott, and the voices of children who live in Kissehman, a poor quarter of Ghana's capital Accra, and at the nearby Liberian refugee camp Buduburam.
Koenig plays guitar and Scott, Ghanaian bongos.
Scott also records ambient sound from places the students visited during their work abroad in the summer of 2007. You’Äôll hear birds in Kumasi, a city north of Accra; waves crashing on the shores of the western coastal city Elmina; the thick tropical Ghanaian rain at the university’Äôs compound; the busy tro-tro [local bus] station at Accra's Kaneshie market; and local musician Adma, originally from Burkina Faso, playing the Goni, a West African stringed instrument.
