How come Spain did not have bongos. The north African moors/Arabs ruled spain for 700 years and introduced the guitar and not bongos? Yet introduced them thousands of miles to south...as far Angola. Not very plausable is it? Spain Did have bongos they Were introduced to Spain by the Moors, smart guy. They have been using bongo drums(although they didn't use the word bongo for them) in Flamenco music for ages. And Moors/Berbers didn't introduce bongo drums to people as far as Angola, they introduced them to the West Africans in the areas of present day Nigeria and Mali, from there the drums made their way further south into Bantu territory.     Bongo-like drums with ceramic bodies and goatskin or rawhide heads are found in  Morocco  where they are known as tbila, as well as in  Egypt  and other  Middle Eastern  countries.  They can sometimes be found accompanying  flamenco  and other traditional Spanish music, partially because of the Moorish influence in Spain.      And no, for the last time, maybe you haven't been paying close attention but the Moors did NOT introduce the guitar to Europeans. Europeans already had guitars, moron.      The modern guitar is descended from the Roman cithara brought by the Romans to Hispania around 40 AD, and further adapted and developed with the arrival of the four-string oud, brought by the Moors after their conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th century.[5] Elsewhere in Europe, the indigenous six-string Scandinavian lut (lute), had gained in popularity in areas of Viking incursions across the continent. Often depicted in carvings c. 800 AD, the Norse hero Gunther (also known as Gunnar), played a lute with his toes as he lay dying in a snake-pit, in the legend of Siegfried.[6] By 1200 AD, the four string guitar had evolved into two types: the guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar) which had a rounded back, wide fingerboard and several soundholes, and the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) which resembled the modern guitar with one soundhole and a narrower neck.[7]