The Colonial Legacy Is Still Being Maintained In African Schools | Sona Jobarteh

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Kora virtuoso, Sona Jobarteh says African youths must be exposed to a new kind of educational experience not the colonised education that tells them they are inferior. That European colonial legacy needs to make way for a new system where the African child is taught to believe in himself.
In an interview with Africa Web TV, Sona Jobarteh discusses her inevitable drift into music, her academy in The Gambia which is redefining African education, the new western acceptance of African music but also wonders if the same people will accept African people! She also spoke of her musical heroes including Toumani Diabate and Ballake Cissoko

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0:00 Intro, The colonial legacy is still being maintained
1:08 Introducing Sona Jobarteh
1:08 How Sona Jobarteh got into music
3:01 Fusing ancient Kora with modern music
5:15 Being a female pioneer playing Kora
7:11 What is the limit of Sona Jobarteh's ambition
8:15 Sona Jobarteh on the new African music acceptance
10:10 Sona Jobarteh's academy redefining education of Africans
13:40 Sona Jobarteh talks about her new album
16:36 How Sona Jobarteh sees her audiences and fans
17:26 Sona Jobarteh shares her thoughts on collaborating with Afrobeats artists
18:14 Outro and music.