Baaba Maal, the Senegalese singer, explains to the the BBC's Robin Denselow the importance of the River Senegal to his music, and about the role of griots in West African society i
Part documentary, part improvised concert, part music video - “NOUS SOMMES DES MESSAGERS” (We are Messengers) presents a portrait of Senegalese musicians Mbemba Diebaté & Walowalo
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Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasukat in Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. T
The title song from the album Liital, available on Awesome Tapes From Africa LP/CD/Tape/MP3
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Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasuka
AFRICAN MUSIC FROM SENEGAL, KORA MUSIC FROM WEST AFRICA, HARP AND KORA MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN LONDON, Is the harp hard to play? Unlike wind and bowed string instruments, the harp s
This will be a world music extravaganza bringing musicians together from Pakistan, Senegal, Spain and the UK. QalandarArts is all about creating world music events that reflect Lon
Balla Kouyate is a griot and virtuoso player of the balaphon. Considered the predecessor of the xylophone and the first Mande instrument, the balafon is made up of wood slats of va
BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN MUSIC FROM SENEGAL, KORA MUSIC FROM WEST AFRICA, HARP AND KORA MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN LONDON, Is the harp hard to play? Unlike wind and bowed string instruments,
There was an awful lot of dancing going on the first time I stumbled upon the music of Cheick Hamala Diabate. On the dance floor at U Street's Tropicalia that night was a rich cros
An introduction to Dafra Keita - a griot from
Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. One of few
female griots in the country who plays all regional drums and string instruments, s
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From Bignona, Casamance Sana Cissokho was born into a Mandinka traditional family of Dialys or griots wher
The Fula people or Fulani or Fulɓe (Fula: Fulɓe; French: Peul; Hausa: Fulani; Portuguese: Fula; Wolof: Pël; Bambara: Fulaw) numbering approximately 20 million people in total are o
Mali Music Video - Mali Music is famous music of West Africa:-
Mali music in this video, was performed by Malian musicians in Jaipur, India.
Republic of Mali is a landlocked
Filmmaker Heinrich Dahms of BUZZMEDIA NETWORK assembled this clip from footage he shot in Mali, in 2009. It is a tribute to the late great musician, Mamoutou Mangala Camara, who gr
"When one thinks of contemporary African pop, the kora isn't the first instrument that comes to mind. A string instrument with a harp-like sound, the it has been a part of traditio
RFI met with Mauritanian singer and ardîn player Noura Mint Seymali before her concert at Festival Africolor in Paris recently. Seymali comes from a long line of Mauritanian griots
Artist: Eneida Marta
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for a Contest hosted by Alcatel
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Produced
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Noura Mint Seymali, from Mauritania, comes from an ancient family of griots, and she has
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Noura Mint Seymali, from Mauritania, comes from an ancient family of griots, and she has a
Senegal es un país del occidente de Africa y uno de los países mas influyentes e importantes dentro de la música tradicional africana (indudablemente).
En el vid
On the Grammar of a Senegalese Drum Language: Yoad Winter
Supporting Materials
Clip 2: A Lebou Wolof griots plays rhythms corresponding to three sentences
Rights f
Koras have long been the instrument of choice for the traditional West African singers, storytellers and oral historians widely known as "griots".
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At the Keur Moussa abbey near Senegal's capital, the kora has replaced the organ and accompanies all the religious services of the Benedictine monks who live there. The friars fabr
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Bao Sissoko is acknowledged throughout Europe as a talented kora-player in the trio Tamala alongside Mola Sylla and Wouter Vandenabeele or in his duo with Malick Pathe Sow. Bao Si
Sona Jobarteh hails from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players; her grandfather was the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh.
Creating her own
Yamäya - Senegal (official music video)
The lead single from Yamäya’s debut album ‘Senegal’, released on Funkiwala Records on the 24th of March 2023.
Track produced by Sam M
Artist: YOUSSOU N'DOUR
Song: Birima
(Youssou N'dour, Ndèye Mbaye Djinema-Djinema, Jimi Mbaye)
LYRICS TO BIRIMA
He assumed the throne of Cajor
And be