Kora land by Tijan M Sallah

amed after the Mande harp-lute, this collection maps the Gambia through its music, its river, and its people with lyrical precision. The kora is the 21-stringed West African instrument central to griot culture — its sound is the sound of Gambian memory — and Sallah uses it as an organizing metaphor for a collection that ranges across Gambian village life, Muslim tradition, the River Gambia, and the disorientation of living between two continents. Widely regarded as his best-known collection and the one most read in African literature courses, praised for how naturally it moves between the political and the intimate.

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