Performance of the children's song hawccin buy bookko KK2011-12-18_001

Kantso Kammo demonstrates the children's song hawccin buy bookko 'let's dig out yam', whose text and melody was used for a modern pop song about the Baskeet diffused in the national media. Kantso Kammo is the traditional leader (kaati) of the Kalmina'-clan and a person with detailed knowledge about the Baskeet traditions. He is also a lyre player and his signature song is the story of the dogad 'civet cat'. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.