Balafon, its in-flight magazine ... With support from the Italian fashion label Bottega Veneta, the new magazine’s first issue launched during the Spring-Summer 2024 menswear shows in Paris ...

As a boy in Mali, Balla Kouyaté remembers playing the balafon to motivate workers on a farm. He was so small, he had to stand on a large rock to be seen by the crowd. An opportunity like that ...

Paukum Bassi is a Cameroonian balafon musician. He plays an instrument that is a type of struck idiophone. Known as balafon, the sort of xylophone can be constructed of animal hors, skins and wood.

The tumbling, tonkling bright tones of the balafon – Mali's ancient ... Bands of Mali compilation released by the key world music label Sterns. Diabate was one of those maverick artists who ...

The balafon, a musical instrument from West Africa, is being considered for inclusion on Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The instrument is built up from 17 to 21 wooden slats on top of ...

In conversation with balafon player Mamadou Diabate ahead of his performance in the city Born into a Griot family in Burkina Faso, known for their tradition of practising storytelling and music ...