Described as a cross between a harp, a lute, and a guitar, the kora is part of a musical tradition that dates back to the 13th century Mali Empire, which stretched across much of West Africa.

Many origin stories of musical instruments in Africa refer to a jinn (genie ... his capital city Bamako for a voyage of over 1,000km west to the birthplace of the kora on the Gambian coastline.

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

But in the Mandinka language of West Africa, they are known ... balafon may be the most famous djeli instrument, it's far from the only one. Google "djeli music," and in addition to balafon ...

One Bay Area man who plays an unusual West African instrument recently discovered ... Keenan Webster would listen to gospel ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

A West African banjo-like akonting instrument ... So even though we could not bring the physical instruments, we came with the musical heritage that we reinterpreted onto the European instruments ...

He recorded some of it on ancient equipment for the Library of Congress, returned to the U.S. convinced that West African music deserved ... which included such instruments as the one-stringed ...

As June honors the people, places, and cultural influences of Black Music Month, it would be impossible not to mention the impact that Afrobeats has had not just on hip-hop music, but pretty much all ...