Since African music is very closely associated with their religious and social rites and rituals, it can be deduced that those gave rise to the want of the certain kind of music African music is associated with. Another thing is for sure about the history of African music. It is that no particular section or social group gave birth to the music of this continent but it essentially differed from individual to individual. Maybe that is the reason behind the huge diversification of the nature of their music.

Archeological sources show the use of igbin drums, a type of cylindrical footed drum in the tenth century to the fourteenth century. The dùndún pressure drum, now related to the Yoruba culture is suspected to have been in use from the fifteenth century. Other archaeological evidences related to the early forms of African music are the iron bells found from Katanga region of Congo and also at various spots in Zimbabwe.

Among the written evidences revolving around the start of African music are the accounts of Ibn Battutah and Ibn Khaldun, the Arabian travelers and of various European ones of the fourteenth century. Both the major and the minor immigrants brought in their own contributions to the early music scene of Africa.

The modern African versions are all based on them and even though they are vastly different from their roots, they still reflect their 1000 years of history in them.

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