"He played those 21 strings with love." That's the great American banjo player Bela Fleck talking about his duets with Toumani Diabaté of Mali — including the crowd-pleaser "Dueling Banjos." Fleck ...

Toumani Diabaté will be remembered around the world for his mastery of the kora, the 21-string musical instrument beloved across West Africa. Malians remember him in many more ways: the undisputed ...

Mali's "king of kora" Toumani Diabate died on Friday at the age of 58 following a short illness, the musician's family announced on social media. "My dear dad is gone forever," the Malian great's son ...

Lovers of traditional African music, especially kora music, will sorely miss him. Diabaté was widely recognised as the greatest kora musician of his generation. His effortless, calm and dignified ...

Musician Toumani Diabaté of Mali and his 21-string kora, photographed at WOMAD -- the World of Music, Arts and Dance festival held yearly in the United Kingdom. Diabaté died on July 19 at age 58. "He ...

Like father and mother.... Toumani Diabaté was born into a centuries-old family of griot musicians, who have preserved the stories and traditions of Mali’s Mandé empire, once the largest in West ...