“A griot for a new generation of West Africans” (BBC Radio), London-born kora virtuoso Sona Jobarteh is a pioneer of the 21-string African lute. She is the first female kora master to have emerged from an established family of West African griots, bucking a long-held hereditary tradition that restricted instruction on the instrument to males only. Starting as a prodigy, Jobarteh began studies with her brother, kora great Tunde Jegede, at age four and gave her first public performance on the instrument at London’s Jazz Café at five.

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