The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire during a period that has since ... Knowledge of Mansa Musa’s reign comes from the stories of the griots and from Arabic writers from throughout the Muslim ...

Taken from The Epic of Old Mali, recited by the griot (oral historian ... A significant portion of the wealth of the Empire derived from the Bure goldfields. The first capital, Niani, was built ...

Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an ...

These chroniclers, as anyone who read Alex Haley's book Roots may remember, are called "griots" in English ... one of its ...

Wassa Kouyaté Wassa Kouyaté is a daring artist who embodies the very essence of Mande griot through her music. Born in Sikasso, Mali, into a family of griots, she is a virtuoso player of the kora and ...

ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: Kaabu emerged in the 13th century as a coastal province within the kingdom of Mali in West Africa ... and musicians known as the griots. Nino Galissa lives in Guinea-Bissau ...