"I made the first one so you could really hear the ngoni. It was not an instrument widely known outside West Africa so I was introducing it to people, and as such Segu Blue was what I would call a ...

That existence is inseparable from the instrument he plays, the ngoni. It is as ancient as it looks; four or five strings made of fishing line strung down a fretless piece of walking stick ...

Bassekou Kouyaté’s band is Ngoni Ba, which translates roughly as “The Big Ngoni,” a pretty terrific description of what Kouyaté’s selling, if you know what an “ngoni” is.

MWOS FC coach Lloyd Mutasa says the electric atmosphere experienced at Ngoni Stadium on Easter Monday in their first game at the renovated facility reminded him of his playing days at Dynamos.

Malian ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate and his band, Ngoni Ba's third album continues the increasingly outward-looking trajectory of its predecessors. The debut, the lovely Segu Blue (Out/Here, 2007), ...

Bassekou Kouyate has revolutionised the ngoni, a traditional lute found throughout west Africa, introducing it to new audiences the world over and collaborating with everyone from Damon Albarn to ...