More musical styles as we travel on to Guinea-Bissau. The Balanta, which means ‘those who resist’, are the main ethnic group found in Guinea-Bissau. They make up more than one-quarter of the population. The Fulani, whom we encountered in the Gambia, are the other prominent ethnic group of Guinea-Bissau. The Balanta play a gourd lute instrument called a kusunde. The Balanta kusunde is an ancenstor of the modern banjo. In the 1980s, musical genres
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