Keme Bourama, Jarabi

The first piece, Keme Bourama, is a traditional oral history of the Malinke people of Guinea, West Africa. It chronicles the martyrdom of one Keme Bourama, a great warlord and hero of the Guinean people younger brother of Almamy Samory Toure, one of the last Guinean warlords to fight against the French occupation in the 19th Century. When his elder brother was about to be lured into a lethal trap laid by the enemy, Keme Bourama went in his stead, sacrificing his life to save his brother s. The kora part