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Joel Gboja Zodji (l), Dah Zodji (m) and myself (r) in front of the Zodji family drumming compound. Dah Zodji is a royal drummer in Agbomey and is well known and respected. He is also a hunor or traditional priest and is also responsible among other things, for the proper burial rites of the people in his neighbourhood. A gentle fellow, he was quite welcoming to me and would check on my progress with my lessons with Joel from time to time and once played a bit to demonstrate for me...a rare treat I was told. The caption on the wall roughly means "the gentle rain can still bring destruction".
Agbomey, Benin, 2010
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