The Goje, is one of the many names for a variety of one or two-stringed fiddles from West Africa, almost exclusively played by ethnic groups inhabiting the Sahel and Sudan sparsely vegetated grassland belts leading to the Sahara. Snakeskin covers a gourd bowl, and a horsehair string is suspended on bridge. A Goje is played with a bowstring. The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. ...  Western Africa (UN subregion)  Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Grasslands are very generally open and continuous, fairly flat area of grass. ... Snakeskin is a material that is produced from the hide of a snake. ... Horsehair refers to hair taken from the mane or tail of horses. ... A Violin Bridge blank and finished bridge A bridge is a device for supporting the strings on a stringed instrument and transmitting the vibration of those strings to some other structural component of the instrument in order to transfer the sound to the surrounding air balls. ... Bowstring is an unincorporated community in the Bowstring Lake unorganized area in Itasca County, Minnesota. ...

The Goje is commonly used to accompany song, and is usually played as a solo instrument, although it also features prominent in ensembles with other West African string, wind or percussion instruments, including the Shekere or Ney. The shekere is a unique percussion instrument from Africa. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The various names by which the Goje are known by include: Goge (Hausa/Zarma), Gonjey (Dagomba, Gurunsi), Njarka (Songhay), N'Ko (Bambara, Mandinka and other Mande languages), Imzad (Tuareg). The Hausa are a people of northern Nigeria and south-eastern Niger. ... Zarma is a major Songhay language of Niger with over 2 million speakers. ... Dagomba is a kingdom in northern Ghana. ... The Gurunsi are a set of ethnic groups inhabiting northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. ... The Songhai are an ethnic group living in western Africa. ... Bambara Mother figure, 15th-20th century The Bambara (Bamana in their own language, or sometimes Banmana) are a Mande people living in west Africa, primarily in Mali but also in Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. ... The Mandinka are a people of West Africa. ... Mande refers to: the Mandé people of western Africa the Mande or Mandinka people of western Africa any of the Mande languages the Mande or Mandinka language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Tuareg or Tamasheq/Tamajaq/Tamahaq is a Berber language or family of closely related languages spoken by the Tuareg, in parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso (with a few speakers, the Kinnin, even in Chad[1].) They are quite mutually comprehensible, and are commonly regarded as a...