It's popular with families and hippies, and the Sunday sunset ritual sees hundreds of people flock to watch the sun descend into the sea, while accompanied by the rhythmic beat of bongos from local dreadlocked drummers.
True beatniks don't read bad poetry to the beat of bongos; it's silly.
WE were walking down a dirt road in a neighborhood of Bamako with the mellifluous name of Badalabougou, following the rhythmic beating of a bongo drum.
Get used to the bongo pattern of the "hammer," or martillo – it's the basic beat of the salsa and many types of bongo music.
When I was a kid, all I wanted was a set of bongo drums.
Later he moved into a fusion of bongo, three congas and the wooden cajon.
He told presenter James Naughtie that he would say "righto, sorry" if UKIP asked him to mind his language, and that he would write to the ambassador of "bongo bongo land and apologise to him personally".
Meanwhile, the precedent of 50 years of Bongo family rule left voters with little confidence in incumbent Ali Bongo's integrity.
An opening vignette in which the cast rapidly shouts lines from Beat writers to the accompaniment of bongos is a muddle; the actors speak so fast and loud it is impossible to understand what they are saying.
