A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that ... (SOUNDBITE OF KORA MUSIC) DANIEL: This is the kora, the instrument that griots use to sing ...

(WBKO) - Normally, you’d need to travel over 6,000 miles to participate in the culture of West Africa. However on Wednesday ... by oral historians known as griots, songs played on the kora ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West ... African kingdoms before colonialism. DANIEL: Much of what we know about Kaabu has been passed down by a group of ...