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All about drums
African Storybook
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Credits & Licence
Author - African Storybook Illustration - Salim Kasamba Language - English Level - First paragraphs © African Storybook Initiative 2019 Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 Source www.africanstorybook.org Original source
author: African Storybook. illustrator: Salim Kasamba. source_copyright_statements: © African Storybook Initiative 2019.
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Original Book on African Storybook: All about drums (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Explore the pictures together rather than supplying a single explanation: invite your child to describe clues, compare interpretations and ask what they are curious about.
- Themes
- Who plays drums?: Women and men are depicted playing drums in different scenes. The images show women as well as men playing; they do not establish an explicit argument about who should play.
- Drums in community life: Drumming is shown alongside social gatherings, work and a performance. The varied settings invite comparison, but the images alone do not establish what the drum means to the people shown.
- Worth knowing
- One scene includes a coffin and people bent near it, suggesting a funeral. This may prompt questions or feelings about death; pause to check how your child reads the image.