Kids, Music & Dance: Niam Jali of the Kora Social Studies including Carmel Myers who came

including Carmel Myers who came out of retirement to appear in this film

Carlito dreams of becoming more proficient than his father and his brother

industrial engineer

An LCA release

Kids, Music & Dance: Niam Jali of the Kora Social Studies including Carmel Myers who cameNiam is twelve. He had been abandoned by his parents in the streets of Bamako but was taken in by Cekili Diabate, a good and generous man. Cekili is also a Jali, a folk musician orator more commonly known as a griot. He plays the kora, a stringed instrument half way between a guitar and a harp with 21 nylon strings and a sound box made from half a calabash and covered by a cowhide. Niam blended very quickly into this artistic family, but the challenge