You not that bright either. If Africans did not have the ability to invent simple string instruments, bongos and so on. What does the 8000 year old boat tell you about their capability to invent stuff. :rolleyes: Once again.....where is this boat? How did a wooden boat survive for 8,000 years it would have rotted. Where is it. And this thread is not about boats. It's about music last I checked. Blacks were introduced to stringed instruments by caucasian north Africans, yes young grasshopper it is true, the same with bongo drums, is truth kemosabi. Don't shoot the messenger. This guy from Latin Beat Magazine agrees with me on bongos , see I'm not the only one son.     Publication:  Latin Beat Magazine   Publication Date: 01-NOV-03   Format: Online - approximately 577 words   Delivery: Immediate Online Access   Author: Mangual, Rudy      Article Excerpt   Bongól n (commonly used in the plural, bongos); also bongoes: 1. one of a pair of small tuned drums played with the hands and fingers 2. Cuban Twin drums      Historically, the origin of the bongó can be traced to Africa and many Islamic and Middle Eastern civilizations, with carved images of these instruments from Mesopotamia dating back to at least 4000 B.C. Samples of unequal sized small drums that are joined together as one instrument can be found in Egyptian and Moorish folkloric instruments  as well as...