SOAS, University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The untimely death of Mali’s Toumani Diabaté at the age of 58 has shocked the music world. The sheer number of tributes, ...

Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ranging ...

Toumani Diabaté, the Malian musician and master of West African traditional harp the kora, died last Friday, July 19 at a hospital in Bamako, Mali, from kidney failure. He was 58. His manager ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko alleges his "cherished, custom-made kora" was "completely destroyed" on a flight this week ...

Ballaké Sissoko only leaves his house at sunset. At around 6pm, he can be seen, with a cap on his head, sitting in front of his large family plot in one of those plastic armchairs with an infinitely ...

Renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko claimed today that US Customs in New York "completely destroyed" his custom-made kora, the West African instrument with which he performs. "The kora is a fragile ...

An internationally renowned musician claims TSA agents at JFK airport destroyed his custom-made instrument during a flight to Paris following a US tour. Ballaké Sissoko, one of Mali’s famous kora ...

Ballaké Sissoko is one of Mali's most prominent musicians A world-renowned kora player says that his custom-made instrument was ruined after going through TSA at New York’s John F. Kennedy ...

The 21-string kora is West Africa’s traditional harp lute. It is part of West African musical history in Senegal, Guinea, Mali, and other countries. It is a beautiful hand-crafted instrument: a large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world ...

Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ranging ...