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Sidikiba's Kora Lesson.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Sidikiba's Kora Lesson
Ryan Thomas Skinner
Beaver's Pond Press
7104 Ohms Lane, Suite 101, Edina, MN 55439
9781592982424, $25.00 www.BeaversPondPress.com 1-952-829-8818
The kora is a harp with twenty-one strings, played by the Mande people of West Africa. It's the instrument featured in Sidikiba's Kora Lesson, a children's picturebook about a young boy who learns not only ...
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...I love my country and I love what I do." Diabate says he taught himself to play because his father, late kora legend Sidiki Diabate, was too busy to teach him. The younger Diabate is similarly afflicted. When not on tour in Europe or the U.S., he...
Source: HighBeam Research, Sidikiba's Kora Lesson.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)