Word: ouagadougou
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...following the ritual killing of two infants: shortly before Alberts and his wife arrived, a village woman had given birth to twins, and according to a tribal superstition which holds that twins are evil, they had been buried alive. Alberts' recording is hair-raising in its intensity. In Ouagadougou, between the Gold Coast and Timbuktu, as guest of the Sorbonne-educated emperor, he recorded the palace orchestra, which included such instruments as the one-stringed rebec-a crude violin-and huge calabash drums...