I didn’t want to live like a single mom.” A couple years after settling in Cajun Country, Mande gave birth to her third child, Iris, in 2010. She was doing some in-home child care for working mothers, ...

Joe Mande was never much good at anything but comedy. Right out of college, he got a suit-and-tie job at a high-end optical store his cousin owned in New York. Though Mande trained as a ...

He opens the album on contemporary kora, playing a stunning 10-minute piece based on a traditional song of the Mali’s nomadic Peul people, “Si naani,” and switches to a traditional ...

Jeremy Siegel: For people who didn't know, you used to be very on Twitter, you became famous for buying a following of millions. Mande: Yes, Yes. I bought a million bots from a man in Moldova for ...

John Arthur, a 60-year-old community elder says the first inhabitants of the Nzulezo migrated from Mali in the 15th century after a war with the Mande people of West Africa over their fertile land ...

Spread throughout the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and others, the Mande people have a strong tradition of performance art, Bach-Coulibaly said. As a student of West African dance, she ...

“I would love people to know that we are do much more ... Straughan’s favorite part about being a Mande is the diverse group of extraordinary women she now calls her friends.

They're oral historians, musicians and performers that hold the history of the Mandé people of Mali, Guinea and other nations. Thus, to play the balafon is Kouyaté’s inheritance, a sacred rite.

The world has lost a significant musical ambassador for the Mande people of west Africa - the virtuoso kora player, composer, and collaborator from Mali, Toumani Diabaté. He died on 19 July ...