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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sona Jobarteh will perform in the next Cornell Concert Series (CCS) production on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall ...