Kora (instrument)
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The kora is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It has features of the lute and harp.
A traditional Kora, a West African stringed instrument, featuring a large, rounded body made from a calabash gourd covered with cowhide, a long hardwood neck, and 21 strings stretched along a tall bridge. The Kora resembles a cross between a harp and a lute, often decorated with intricate carvings or beadwork
A kora player wearing a korte necklace, from the central northern Bandiagara Escarpment, Mopti Region, Mali. The kora neck and handles appear to have broken off. Late 1700s.
Sambou, jali of Niantanso, Mali, with a Kamalengoni (a relation to the Kora) in 1872.
Kora players in Sénégal, 1900. The koras are straight-necked, with handles, carrying cords, tacked skins and small, square soundholes.
Sona Jobarteh
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Sona Jobarteh is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora play
Kora (instrument)
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Jobarteh at the Aid for Trade Global Review, 2017