Shekere
![Gourd shekere from Africa with seeds in the net.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Shekere1512.jpg")
The shekere is an instrument from West Africa consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd. Throughout the continent there are similar gourd/bead or gourd/seed percussion instruments. Some are the lilolo, axatse (Ghana), djabara (Guinea), ushàkà, chequere and saa saa (Liberia). It is predominantly called shekere in Nigeria.