Text based on Mandinka/Bambera (Gambia/Mali) poem co-edited with Sankung Susso

Duniya taps from griot vocal traditions from the Mali/SeneGambia sub-region of West Africa, and draws accompaniment ideas from the four-string kontigo and the robust low drones of the also multi-stringed kamelangoni. The song draws from ancient Mandinka poetry about the unsurpassed wisdom of an Almighty Supreme God, who must be the true and only architect of the universe.

—Fred Onovwerosuoke