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Djolé (also known as Jolé or Yolé) is a
mask A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment and often they have been employed for rituals and rights. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and pra ...
- dance from Temine people in
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. It is played traditionally with a large square drum called . Although a mask depicts a female, it is carried by a male. Djolé is played usually during big feasts which involve many villages to celebrate a good harvest, the end of the Ramadan or a
marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between ...
. Nowadays the rhythm has been rearranged to be played with the djembé and is very popular in particular in Guinea.


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Djolé rhythm page on www.djembefola.fr
African dances Sierra Leonean music {{dance-stub