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First professional female kora player shakes up traditions
Virtuoso of the kora, a west African stringed instrument, Gambian Sona Jobarteh is the first woman to play it professionally: an affront to tradition which reserves this practice for griot men, transmitters of oral history, to preserve the mysteries of this sacred object. Watch in for more details!
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