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Mamane Barka (1959 – 21 November 2018) was a renowned Nigerien musician and one of the world's leading players of the biram. He was born in 1959 in Tesker, a town in eastern Niger, and belonged to the nomadic Toubou people. Initially, he gained fame as a player of the Ngurumi, a two-string plucked instrument, in his homeland and neighboring Nigeria. In 2002, he dedicated himself to the study of the biram, a five-stringed instrument used by the Boudouma fishing community on Lake Chad for traditional songs. He passed away on 21 November 2018 at the age of 59.

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