Singer and storyteller Kaito Winse was born in a small village in the Sourou region of northern Burkina Faso. He was born into a family of griots, a keeper of oral traditions that are steeped in his ...

Drawing on West African griot traditions, he called out what he terms an “epistemicide”—a systemic effort to erase Black and brown ways of knowing, from defunding arts to censoring DEI initiatives. He ...

BAMAKO: Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see.Two hundred years have passe ...

Admittedly, the first time I tried Griot was at Exotica Caribbean Kitchen, the first Caribbean restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan.

"Moulin Rouge" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Kylie Minogue in concert, a new Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Art Institute, and ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see. Two hundred years have passed since the invention ...

The guitar is an integral part of Mali’s griot tradition, the cultural practice of storytelling through music. Musicians adapted the guitar to emulate the sounds of traditional string ...

Credit: AP/Moustapha Diallo The guitar is an integral part of Mali's griot tradition, the cultural practice of storytelling through music. Musicians adapted the guitar to emulate the sounds of ...