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Mbira- for individual entertainment and to accompany storytelling. An idiophone. used in ceremony of ancestor invocation
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Xylophone- used in Bantu world and Sudanic belt. Has many shapes and sizes. Each key has a gourd underneath for resonance. Lower the pitch, larger the gourd

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An orchestra of these is a chopi

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Kora- a harp-lute of 21 strings, half a gourd and animal skin. Used by Mandingo of Mali. Players are known as griots
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Inanga- trough zither with 7 to 9 strings and wood soundboard
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krar- a wooden sound box used for songs and epics. Chordophone
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Shekere- a rattle with external bead net over a gourd. FOund in Sudanic belt
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Gankogui- double bell or iron pitched high and low. Bells are welded together which provides time line patterns
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Dundun- talking drum of Nigerian Yoruba. Two-headed membranophone with hour-glass shaped bell. Capable of producing a variety of tones. Called dono in Ghana and is held under the armpit and squeezed to change pitch and struck with curved mallet