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Senegalese monks seek God through kora music
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KEUR MOUSSA: Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp.It is mid-afternoon prayer in the abbey of Keur Moussa, just east of Senegal’s capital Dakar, a tranquil 25-hectare complex filled with fruit trees and herb gardens — and famed for its relationship with the kora.Dozens of monks are singing in a modernist church under a red-and-black mural of the nativity and crucifixion in which Jesus is represented as an African.Here, seven times a day, Benedictine friars sing the glories of God to the sound of the 21-string kora.In the monastery’s workshop, luthier-monks also cra

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