More asymetrical, individual shapes and different proportions, so typical of many rural jembe and jembe older than 15 or 20 years, to me seem to vanish. Sooner or later, it will have us do so, anyway. Believe me, I am feeling strange in getting close to a position advocating plastic jembe in this spontaneously argued list post. This is reasonable of course, and a simple matter of fact, too, since antelopes simply are overhunted in the rural areas and non-existent in cities. To Ritva, Djeli Moussa Diabate would like to express his gratitude to all of those concerned about deforestation in W.A. Deforestation is bad whether in the North or the South of the planet.
Guinea is a country set mostly on a tropical forest land.
I have gone to the forest with a men to have trees cut for my drums, since I was concerned about deforestation and wanted to follow the process. The wood cutter has followed an initiation and knows how to chose his tree. Out of one tree, he could get four Djembes. Him and his team worked every other day. It takes a lot of your energy to cut this very dense wood.