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. In many West African cultures, griots serve as communal memory banks, transmitting a people’s history, rituals, folklore and values from ...

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 ...

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 ...

The jailed former attorney general and minister for Justice Monday opened his defence in the 13-count criminal case involving him and the former president of the Gambia Court of Appeal and Chief ...

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 ...

Ousman Jobarteh, has rubbished online claims that the Banjul Port has been mortgaged to a Turkish company in exchange for a loan.

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 ...