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- ↑ Author, Guest (2019-02-11). "Burru, Afro-Jamaican Djembe Rhythm with Joakim Lartey @ Tribal Rhyhtm Gathering 2018". Didge Project. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel (1998). Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader. Temple University Press.
- ↑ Moskowitz, David (2006). Caribbean Popular Music. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 46.