She has found international fame as a musician, but Sona Jobarteh has a bigger mission – to use culture to empower Africans to reform their countries. Jobarteh has been performing with the kora – a 21 ...

Sona Jobarteh was born in London to a family of Gambian griots, musicians and storytellers who maintain the oral tradition that keeps the histories of their people alive. Jobarteh’s family is one of ...

Jeremy Siegel: This is GBH's Morning Edition. The musical instrument called the kora has been played almost exclusively by men since the 13th century, strictly passed down as a family tradition in ...

Sona Jobarteh. Photo by Tony Rath, courtesy of the artist. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up In many West African cultures, ...

Sona Jobarteh is quite a busy woman. In addition to leading her own band and creating her own albums, she frequently makes guest appearances on recordings, speaks as an activist before the United ...

I recently discovered this young London-based Gambian musician Sona Jobarteh. She comes from a long line of master musicians and griots from the Gambia in West Africa. The kora, by the way, is a ...

The hallowed tradition of kora playing in Sona Jobarteh’s family passed down the male line. One of her teachers dismissed it as “an ethnic thing.” But it has brought her international acclaim. By Aina ...

Gambia's Musa Jobarteh set an unwanted record by conceding 93 runs in four overs in a T20 match against Zimbabwe. In the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier, Zimbabwe posted a record ...

The state prosecution unit, led by Agyia, yesterday filed in thirteen-count fresh charges against the former Chief Justice of The Gambia, Justice Wowo and the ex- attorney general and minister of ...

The managing director of the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA), Ousman Jobarteh, has rubbished online claims that the Banjul Port has been mortgaged to a Turkish company in exchange for a loan. Speaking on ...

The Media Foundation of West Africa and the Gambia Press Union worry about the consequences of President Adama Barrow's televised threat against government critic Madi Jobarteh. This statement was ...