Jali Alagi MBye - storytelling from the Gambia! THE KORA STORY 

This man was a national treasure. Rest in peace.

Through your music: you will never die. 🕊️ RIP Jali Alagi 🕊️

I first saw a person playing Gambian kora in the subway of NYC (Malang Jobarteh), can't forget it ever since. Combined with melodic singing and a story it creates the whole theatric experience

May your soul rest in perfect peace 😭😭

Rest in peace Dad

this guy is amazing i could listen to him all day sad hes parted us

Jali alagi Brother... Love you from India.. Soulful... Heavenly voice's man. Stories are touch to heart!!

Rest in peace my brother

Amazing story and a great performance from string of a precious kora instrument. Indeed, the Gambia lost loss a great son, a kora mestro and a historical gem.

I met Alagi on my first trip to the Gambia on the plane. Telling my brother Njiakassi that i had met this Kora player, he revealed that he was his childhood friend. One evening Alagi visited us with one of his students and gave a concert on our terrace. What an evening, what a visit to the Gambia. Thanks to all the people who i was able to meet. So happy that the Gambia will get a chance to prosper, for freedom and less suffering.

Beautiful music and amazing storytelling.

Jaliba Alajie Mby Faatuta ! N'Naa Daa mansoo ka bankoo soumaya a fe, ka yanfa a ma ! Saaya te jong tulaa muume.

Great man from my beloved country. RIP papa

Alagi MBye, my Master my teacher and good friend in the years 1995 - 2001. His strength, depth and sincerity with which he has lived and shared the culture of the Mandingos, the culture of the griots, their Kora music is unique. A great artist and upright preserver of antiquity, with all its reduction to the essential. You deserve great thanks and honour forever and ever. Stefan Charisius DUNDUMUSIK Charisius-on-Kora.

This music is ethereal

Merci pour Une très belle chanson ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love your kora. Amazing and wonderful tale

Lovely storytelling from the kora player​....

Amazing story

DAS ist mal tolle Musik! 😊 🤞 ♥

Hypnotic.

Absolutely lovely

This is very beautiful. thank you

15"48, heaven sound !

May Allah SWT have mercy on him

Wonderfull February 2022 who is still there

Lovely expressions

Such a joy!

Super Gut. I' M Proud for you.....

Très fort jalibaa ! À bouloo diyata

Real magic here ,storytelling the real African way.

Interesting story

Great music! I subscribed! Thanks very much ❤️

Cameroonian who loves

Rest in peace 😢

May Allah Grant you Janna.

ndeysane

May Almighty Allah Grant him jannah

May your soul rest in peace jali

May god bless him

Koriang is also a Teso and Turkana name. The Iteso, the Turkana and the Karamojong were once one tribe. The Iteso and Turkana are found in Kenya. What ethnicity was Koriang?

Or anywhere i can follow him

Rest in peace

The Kora was invented in the present territory called Guinea Bissau in the place that was called Kansala by where it located the palace of the kingdom Mandinka in the region Senegambia. Kora originally is not from Gambia.

History has been misinterpreted and mixed up and this has to stop. The nationalism that emanates from the current geographical separation must not continue to divide us and mix histories. We are all the same and it doesn't matter the surname of those who play the kora, what matters is the soul of those who play the kora. The song is saying everything, Jola Kelefa Meaning the Jola/Beafada warlord (Initially the Mandingas called the Beafadas by the name of Jolas. Currently the name Jola refers to the Jola ethnic group from Casamance, Guinea-Bissau and Gambia, not to Beafadas, for example Yahya Jammeh was Jola but has nothing to do with Kelefa Ba Sane who is Beafada); Badora jola y'ela the Warrior Jola/Beafada from the Badora region is dead, Again the song: Tambo be Baria his spear is leaning in Baria village Explaining, Baria is a village located in Guinea-Bissau, in Badora region, nowdays, Bambadinka, Bafata region. Djola/Beafada/Sane/Mane/Sonko/Sanha, Nyantchos, are all originally from Guinea-Bissau, the rulers of Kabu. There was a large movement of people and griots out of Kabu/Gabu from 1800 to 1870 because of wars with the Fula from Kolda/Fuladu in Senegal and the Fula from Futa Djalon in Guinea-Conakri which culminated in the fall of Kansala /Gabu in 1867-1869. This helped to take the kora to other regions where only 4-5 generations ago people started playing this instrument. It is because of this exodus that Gambia currently has many kora players, as well as casamance, in senegal. The kelefa Ba Sane that the song originally talks about has to do with the first invasions and wars with the Fula in the regions of senegambia (currently, parts of Guinea-Bissau/Gabu, Casamance and Gambia), which are from the period 1490 to 1560 and which ended with the victory of the Mandinka, helped by the Nyantchos/Sane/Mane/Sonko/Sanha who became lords of Gabu, reigning 300 years, until the defeat of Djanke Wali in 1860s. The Gambians and Bissau-Guineans are the same people and the Djelis have always moved freely between these two regions that were part of the empire of Gabu, as you said, but that does not make the kora from Gambia. In Gambia, Senegal and Guinea-Conakri, everyone knows that kora is from Guinea-Bissau.