The Laurel County Public Library welcomed musician Sean Gaskell to perform in the library's auditorium last Wednesday. The artist specializes in playing the West African kora, a long-necked harp which ...
A seasoned court transcriber working with the Judiciary of the Gambia on Monday, 9 September 2024 testified in the sedition trial involving Ebrima Dibba of the United Democratic Party (UDP).
"Whites shouldn't have to wear Mandinka clothes, and I shouldn't have to wear English suits." Afrocentrism's intellectual godfather is Cheikh Anta Diop, the author of The African Origin of ...
To reflect Palermo's "linguistic and cultural diversity", the director decided to incorporate different languages, including Italian, Mandinka, French, Pidgin and English, into the performance.
She also took on other people's pain. Her breakthrough single, Mandinka, contained oblique references to female genital mutilation. 1990's Black Boys On Mopeds addressed police brutality against ...
Her music draws on that of the Mandinka people, a West African ethnic group. Kone mainly sings in the Dioula language but has replaced traditional instruments with the guitar, piano and brass. “She ...