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First professional female kora player, Sona Jobarteh shakes up traditions / 34T49UT
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Virtuoso of the kora, a West African stringed instrument, Gambian Sona Jobarteh is the first woman to play it professionally: an affront to tradition which reserves this practice for griot men, transmitters of oral history, to preserve the mysteries of this sacred object. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES