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Women should make protest music, Camae Ayewa once said. Ayewa is better known as Moor Mother. Born in Aberdeen, Maryland, USA, she would probably describe herself as a performer, a feminist, and an activist, and all of these aspects inform her work as a musician-whether collaborating with the neo-free jazz band Irreversible Entanglements or as Moor Mother, whether she ...

Did Sona Jobarteh have a choice? Not really. Anyone who grows up in one of the most famous griot dynasties in West Africa, surrounded by musical grand masters, is unlikely to ponder their own vocation. It must be a calling, at any rate: even as a very young child, Sona Jobarteh, born in London in 1983 and originally from The Gambia, learned to play the kora, the 21-sided bridge harp ...