I am a specialist in Mande culture, history and languages. My research focuses on Mande languages, African history, folklore, religion, ethnomusicology, art, ethnomedicine, and global public health.

I am a specialist in Mande culture, history and languages. My research focuses on Mande languages, African history, folklore, religion, ethnomusicology, art, ethnomedicine, and global public health.

When Ibrahima Traore takes his sons to a park in Montclair, N.J., he often sits on a bench and reads. He reads English, French and Arabic, but most of the time he reads N’Ko, a language few speakers ...