Jobarteh has become the first female kora artist to have a major touring and recording career, and is one of the few ...

Researchers say role of West Africa’s oral history should be taken more seriously within global academic record ...

For centuries, the history of the West African kingdom of Kaabu, which thrived from the mid-1500s to the 1800s and spanned ...

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 ...

In Kansala, griots have long been the way history lessons were passed between generations. They often sing the history accompanied by the kora, a string instrument that resembles both a harp and a ...