An internationally renowned musician is claiming TSA destroyed his one-of-a-kind custom-made instrument following a two-week U.S. tour. Famous Mali kora player Ballaké Sissoko was flying Air France ...

An internationally renowned musician claims TSA agents at JFK airport destroyed his custom-made instrument during a flight to Paris following a US tour. Ballaké Sissoko, one of Mali’s famous kora ...

Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko alleges his "cherished, custom-made kora" was "completely destroyed" on a flight this week "without any justification." The kora is a traditional West African ...

When Ballake Sissoko, a renowned kora player from Mali, looked in his case at his Paris home after flying from New York, he found the instrument in pieces. By Maria Cramer A renowned Malian musician ...

Mali has musical heritage extending back centuries, and a vibrant contemporary music culture that bubbles up all over. There’s American-inflected hip-hop. There’s a grand tradition of Afro-Cuban dance ...

Ingrid Monson, a Harvard jazz scholar and ethnomusicologist with the lofty title of Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, owns a collection of balafons — the West African instrument that ...

Ballaké Sissoko is a Malian musician and master of the kora, an instrument common in West Africa. In a Facebook post shared Wednesday, Sissoko claimed his "tailor-made" instrument was "completely ...

The African nation of Mali is in the headlines after an attack on a Radisson Blu in the capital city of Bamako. People who have been following events in the North African nation for the past few years ...

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