The Djidji Ayokwe drum is a communication tool more than three metres (10 feet) long and weighing 430 kilogrammes (almost 950 pounds) that was once used to transmit messages between different areas, for example to warn others of a forced recruitment drive.
The talking drum had been in the care of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris.

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