Sona Jobarteh makes magical music for us on the kora….
The kora, a 21-stringed harp, its body fashioned from a halved calabash covered with cow hide, is one of West Africa’s most glorious traditional instruments. While musicians from Mali as Toumani Diabaté are particularly crazy about the kora, in this video Gambian kora master Sona Jabarteh, descendant of one of West Africa’s most prominent kora-paying families, shows us that non-Malians can wow us too.
