A drum or percussion instrument from Central African traditions.
From Bantu languages of Central Africa, where similar terms refer to various types of drums and percussion instruments.
Instruments like the babuma show how African music has whole categories of sounds that European languages don't have words for—so when the drum got collected and brought to museums, even its name usually got lost or mispronounced!
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