QUOTE(Silver seren @ Wed 24th August 2011, 4:10pm)
Fixed. When in doubt, remove it. Didn't seem to have anything to do with the Akonting instrument anyways.
It's a comment about linguistics. It appears that the word has structural gender corresponding to a personal gender, which is anomalous as a banjo is, well, not a person. It's rather like the anomalous way "Mädchen" is grammatically neuter; much has been written about the acceptability of using feminine pronouns in backreference to women made neuter by this quirk of German's grammar.