
He sang about education, work, love, society. And he owned, in addition to guitar, bongami and instrument “kalabash” and sang in eleven languages, except English. Then he learned about the existence of the guitar and, inspired by the founder of the African Ballet of Guinea Fodeba Keita (Fodeba Keita), began to learn how to play it. He says: “Tamasek, sing, dogon, singhai, bambara, boso and the sea are seven different nationalities, seven different languages, but we all live here in Niafunka.” When Toure was ten years old, he began to play instruments that he calls his teachers-a small single-stringed guitar, njurkel, and a tiny violin of nyarka-a pumpkin-sized fist, with a thirty-centimeter neck, on which is fastened a thin string of guts.
