Another musician from the Gambia winds up our look at "updated" kora music . Unlike the two previous artists featured here, I was...

I'm not sure Ama Maïga's Une Fleche Malienne (Disques Sonics SONICS 79426, ca. 1984) succeeds completely as a fusion between traditi...

Researching that last post has got me to pondering the ways in which the kora , the traditional 21-string harp-lute of West Africa, has bee...

The Casamance region of southern Senegal has been the scene of sporadic fighting over the years between the central government and the separ...