00:01Back home at last. Ivory Coast on Friday celebrated the return of a sacred drum looted by French
00:10troops in 1916. The homecoming parade through the streets of Abidjan took place on the country's
00:17Independence Day. The drum then continued on to the village of Adjame where it was made.
00:27As far as we're concerned that drum left our village but we have no information about it.
00:38Yet as God has a way of working things out we've been told that the Gigi Ayokwe drum has arrived
00:45and the whole village should come together to celebrate this great joy when remembering our
00:51ancestors. You can see that this is truly an important sign. It's a traditional value.
01:03People performed a libation ceremony pouring liquid onto the ground as an offering to their
01:09ancestors. The so-called talking drum was used by the Ebre tribe to send messages and warn of danger.
01:19We like it. We wanted to see the drum. We want to see the drum with our own eyes so
01:25we can truly
01:26believe it belongs to us. That's what we want to see. And besides the drum has been gone for a
01:35very
01:35long time. We're so happy to see it. The drum is one of hundreds of stolen artifacts Paris is preparing
01:46to send back to Africa thanks in part to a new French law passed in May. It now goes on
01:52display at the
01:53Museum of Civilizations in Abidjan.
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