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Senegalese monks seek God through kora music
Jean-Paul, a non-monk kora manufacturing worker, takes care of connecting the skin to the ropes of the kora inside the kora making workshop of the Abbey of Keur Moussa, in Senegal, on May 19, 2021. French Benedictines who founded Keur Moussa in 1963 were amazed at the sound of the kora, which they found could replace the organ when performing Gregorian chant. They produce between 40 to 50 koras a year in a small workshop and the instruments produced have become a point of reference for touring musicians and prominent members of griot families. CARMEN ABD ALI / AFP.
Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp.
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