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Endongo
The ''endongo'' is a musical instrument, considered the national instrument of the Baganda people of Uganda. It is a member of a family of lyres which can be found, with variations, in many areas throughout East Africa. The endongo is specifically a Kiganda bowl lyre, with the face of the bowl covered with the skin of either a monitor lizard or ant lizard.
The endongo is found within the ''interlacustrine'' area of Uganda, which is “the kingdom-states around the northern, western, and southern shores of Lake Victoria and the area between Lake Victoria and the chain of lakes: Lake Albert, Lake Edward, Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika”.〔 The bowl lyre present in Uganda is played by two particular tribes, the Basoga, who name the instrument ''entongoli'', and the Baganda, who call it the ''endongo''.〔
The bowl lyre can be heard at school festivals, and at weddings when playing music to lead a wedding dance. It is mainly played by men such as griots (or ''praise-singers''), and is played either solo or to accompany songs of praise. Today, few endongos are manufactured as it is considered one of the most difficult instruments to make.〔
==History==
How or when the lyre was introduced to the area we now call Uganda is unknown.〔 Wachsmann (1971) speculates that the instrument emerged with the Luo migrations from Sudan in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, was then adopted by the Basoga, and finally reached the court of the Baganda King Mutesa I.〔
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