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A junjung (or variously jung-jung, gungun, dyoung-dyoung etc.)Léopold Sédar Senghor, À l'appel de la race de Saba (1936) : « Ma tête bourdonnant au galop guerrier des dyoungs-dyoungs, au grand galop de mon sang de pur sang » is the royal war drum of the Serer people in Senegal and the Gambia.Louis Diène Faye. Mort et naissance: le monde Sereer, p56. Nouvelles Éditions africaines, 1983 It was played on the way to the battlefield, on special state occasions as well as on Serer religion ceremonies.
It is also the progenitor of the music of the same name found in the Caribbean.Pathé Diagne, Tarana ou l'Amérique précolombienne : un continent africain, Harmattan, 2010, p. 260,
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