LN.001
20cm x 20cm and 18cm high.
This month is 100 years from the birth of NELSON MANDELA, South African anti-apartheid activist (1918-2013). For this reason I thought I would post this instrument which is so much connected with him.
Made in Accompong Town in West Jamaica, this square drum celebrates Mandela's freedom in February 1990 after 27 years of imprisonment. In 1994 Mandela became the first black South African to be democratically elected President.
'GUMBA MANDELA IS FREE AGAIN' is incised into one of its sides, and his ideals of 'LOVE AND UNITY' on another. The name 'George Hoggins' pricked into the wooden frame is presumably the maker of this instrument.
