Kora · griot lineage
Sona Jobarteh
Gambian kora player, singer and composer (born 1983) from one of the five principal griot families of West Africa, and the first woman from a griot family to become a professional kora player. She is the granddaughter of Amadu Bansang Jobarteh and a cousin of Toumani Diabaté, and runs a school in the Gambia that teaches the griot tradition alongside the ordinary curriculum.
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