Jeli Mamary Kouyate playing the ngoni, Kolokani, Mali, 1976

by David Conrad

Numuso Koroma, wife of Seydou Camara, accompanying him on the ngaryinya (iron rasp), Bamako, Mali, 1976

Seydou Camara of Kabaya Wasulunke blacksmith and hunters' singer playing the donso ngoni (hunters' harp), Bamako, Mali, 1976

by David Conrad

Central Market (Suguba), Bamako, Mali, 1984

by David Conrad

Street Scene, Gunjor, The Gambia, 1998

by David Conrad

Bobo Diolasso, Burkina Faso, 1966

by David Conrad

Namokono Kamara of Mandinkara, in Woi (Mansuan), Guinea-Bissau, 1996

by Cornelia Giesing

Alimano Janko of Sankollo-Tendino, Birasu, Guinea-Bissau, 1996

by Cornelia Giesing