Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko criticizes TSA after he claims his “impossible-to-replace” instrument was destroyed by agents at JFK airport.
In an earlier
about the incident, Sissoko, 52, said he discovered the instrument in pieces on Tuesday, at his home in Paris. He said he had boarded the flight on Feb. 2. and arrived in the French capital the following day.NBC News has approached the TSA for comment. In his Facebook post, Sissoko asked whether the agents would have"dared to dismantle a Stradivarius," violin, adding that his Kora had been destroyed because of the “cultural ignorance and racism that is taking over many parts of the world."
Sissoko had just completed a tour of U.S. cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York with his group 3MA. The band takes its name from the first two letters of each member's country of origin in French: Mali, Maroc, Madagascar. Sissoko started playing the kora for the “Orchestre National du Mali” when he was 13, and eventually toured across Africa. after moving to France, he formed his own troupe, gaining international recognition.Isobel van Hagen
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