This week Rhythm Planet showcases classical African music by kora masters from Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. Many other great kora masters couldn’t be featured today for reasons of time—like Malang ...

The kora is a West African harp with 21 strings and a large calabash gourd body. According to Eric Charry, a historian of West African music, the instrument originated in the late 18th century, during ...

Epochal artists provoke only obscurity or silence during their lifetimes. The interpretation of their art and their contribution begins only after they have departed from the scene. This is proving to ...

Electric Kora Sounds is the modern music of the young Mandingo people, created by contemporary musicians and made popular by the famous Gambia band called Ifangbondi. Ifangbondi who invented Afro ...

Morikeba Kouyate of Senegal performed a 22-string kora Tuesday at the University of New Orleans as part of the music department's 'Meet the Artist' series. The kora, made of a gourd and wood, ...

Covering the upcoming concert by Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal has rekindled my long-time love of the West African kora, the beautiful 21-string harp-lute used by griots, the storytellers who… ...