Amid Black History Month celebrations in February, some local musicians say they are finding more opportunities at various venues to share their work and stories.

Researchers say role of West Africa’s oral history should be taken more seriously within global academic record ...

Diabate, a renowned master of the kora—a traditional West African stringed instrument—died at a private clinic in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Born in 1965 into a family of griots, Diabate was ...

For centuries, the history of the West African kingdom of Kaabu, which thrived from the mid-1500s to the 1800s and spanned ...

Inspired by daily life in the West African country of Guinea, the show features gravity-defying acrobatics accompanied by a ...

Singer and virtuoso kora player Wassa Kouyaté will be accompanied by Balla Kouyaté, a virtuoso player of the balafon (West African xylophone). “Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata ...

After decades of pursuing his passion, he can now play the kora, which is also known as the West African Mandinka harp. A recent DNA family history test showed Webster's ancestors also hailed from ...