Arts + Culture
Les Ballets Africains: the Guinean troupe that brought West African dance to the world’s stages
Les Ballets Africains, founded by Fodéba Keïta in Paris in the early 1950s, became Guinea's national ballet after…
Sékou Touré
Music
A state orchestra, a sung history of Samory Touré and a tragedy in 1973: Bembeya Jazz National of Guinea
Bembeya Jazz National was formed in 1961 in Beyla, Guinea, and became the country's most popular state-supported band…