Papa Susso
Alhaji Papa Bunka Susso ( born September 29, 1947 in Sotuma Sere ) is a musician and Jeli from Gambia. He played on the West African instrument kora, a 21 -string bridge harp.
Life
Susso attended from 1960 to 1963 the primary school, after which he attended until 1965, Armitage High School in Georgetown. After the completion of secondary school, he joined a job as an assistant to the Ministry of Agriculture (English Ministry of Agricultural and Natural Resources ). Then he received a scholarship to study at the University Cuttington in Suakoko. There he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 and returned to Gambia. He took a job as a senior auditor at the Ministry of Labour (English Ministry of Work and Communications ). At the Gambian Embassy in Freetown Susso was at times too busy.
At one point, he gave up his work and remembered back to the Kora play, which he had learned from his father at the age of five years. He became chief kora player in the Gambia National Cultural Troupe, which played under the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture (English Ministry of Education and Culture ). In 1974 he left the group and formed his own organization, The Manding Music and Dance Limited. This organization was to explore the goal of the history and traditions of the Mandinka and present. Further, the organization is to support the artists in the presentation of these traditions. Later, he became director of the Koriya Musa Rescearch Center.