Born in Sikasso, Mali, into a family of griots, she is a virtuoso player of the kora and the piano. Women are usually forbidden to play the kora and are often assigned the task of singing or ...

Diabate, a renowned master of the kora—a traditional West African stringed instrument—died at a private clinic in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Born in 1965 into a family of griots, Diabate was ...