“The tuning pegs come from Japan,” N’tab admitted, laughing. “So that really makes the kora a universal instrument.” The monks pray at least six times a day, in accordance with the ...

Centuries later, enslaved Malians would bring their melisma singing style, call-and-response narration, and knowledge of making plucked and strummed stringed instruments like the kora and ngoni to ...

With powerful drumming and music, heart-stopping acrobatics and colorful dance, Cirque Kalabanté’s “Afrique en Cirque” ushers ...

a West African 21-string instrument with similarities to a harp and a lute. Here, a kora is held by Kouyaté from Afro Celt Sound System.

Women are usually forbidden to play the kora and are often assigned the task of singing or accompanying themselves with more simple percussive instruments and shakers while the men play the main ...