Althea SullyCole studied her primary instrument, the
kora — a 21-stringed West African harp — under korists
Yacouba Sissoko and Edou Manga. She is a multi instrumentalist,
vocalist, and ethnomusicologist from New York
City. From 2024 to 26, Althea will be performing research
on an Award for Faculty from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, which, among other things, will fund fieldwork in
Mali and Guinea in support of her scholarship on historical
collections of musical instruments from the Mandé region of
West Africa.
