VOA慢速英语 海洋精灵Mami Wata的多面性

　　Here is playing with a group of women from a small village in Uganda.

　　(MUSIC: "Tulinesangala")

　　In Tanzania, Fleck plays with musicians including Anania Ngoliga. He is a master of the thumb piano, which you can hear in this recording.

　　(MUSIC: "Kabibi")

　　While in Tanzania, Fleck visits a beach where centuries ago enslaved Africans were led to ships that would carry them to other countries.

　　JOHN KITIME: "This town's called Bagamoyo, Bagamoyo means 'throw down your heart.' Bwaga means throw. Heart, moyo is heart. Because this is where slaves from the mainland would come for transportation."

　　The musician John Kitime explains that the slaves knew that they were not going to see their homes again. So it was time to "throw down their hearts" before leaving. The Africans on these ships brought the instruments to America that would later evolve into the banjo.

　　While traveling, Bela Fleck discovered many of the banjo's ancestors.

　　BELA FLECK: "West Africa is where you really see things like banjos; East Africa, not so much. But in West Africa, you have the halum, the ngoni, the akonting ... "

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