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Culture: Guinea

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African Music Encyclopedia (http://africanmusic.org/)
Performance history of African artists.

Cora Connection: The Manding Music Traditions of West Africa (USA) (http://www.coraconnection.com/)
The home page of a Boston-based American "world music ensemble" lead by kora player David Gilden; plus related links on the kora, educational programs, and concerts.

Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.

Guinee (http://www.afromix.org/pays/guinee/index.fr.html)
In French, English and Spanish. Contemporary and traditional musicians with recorded music.

Welcome to Boubah.Com (http://boubah.com/)
Offers "... news about Guinea in English and French, business practices, music, the economy, education, geography, the internet and Guinea, population, government, travel, books about Guinea, directory of web pages by Guineans with brief descriptions of the authors, etc." [Karen Fung, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guinea.html.]

West African Gallery (http://www.westafricanjourney.com/Gallery/Countries/Guinea.htm)
Survey of the languages, the people, and geography.

West African Music Page (http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/Afmus.html)
Traditional and contemporary musicians and music.

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