 Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta

Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta is a Jola scholar and musician from Mandinary, Gambia, who pioneered the research and documentation of the "akonting", a Jola folk lute, as well as the related Manjago folk lute, the buchundu, in the mid-1980s.Prior to Jatta's work, these instruments were largely unknown outside the rural villages of the Senegambia region of West Africa.