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This is an image with the theme "Health and Wellness in Africa" from:
Nigeria

The photo is categorized as being related to the Fula people (in the categories below). A Fulani musician plays a garaya.

The garaya is a folk instrument that the Fulani make with a gourd body.[1] The Hausa also make a garaya with a wood body.[1] According to Banjo Roots and Branches, both versions should have made a "semi-spike lute" in which the handle of the instrument stays under the soundboard and doesn't poke out through both sidewalls of the gourd.[1] However, this is a folk instrument,[1] in which a local musician can make the instrument the way he likes.
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  1. ↑ a b c d "3 List of West African Plucked Spike Lutes" in Robert B. Winnans , ed. Banjo Roots and Branches "Semi-Spike Lutes...garaya [plural garayu] (Hausa: Nigeria) (two strings)...garaya [garayaaru, garayaaji] (Fulani [Fulbe]:Cameroon) (two strings; gourd body)"

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A man has fun pretending to play the 'garaya', a stringed instrument popular with the Fulanis in Nigeria

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