Kids, Music & Dance: Niam Jali of the Kora Social Studies Pattern is designed repetition of

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environmental manager and engineer as they show us how they manage steam production wells and electric generators

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

We discover the secrets that have been passed down his family for generations

Kids, Music & Dance: Niam Jali of the Kora Social Studies Pattern is designed repetition ofNiam 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