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Ko Kan Ko Sata

Malian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ4977103 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kokanko Sata is a musician from southern Mali. She plays the kamale n'goni, a traditional eight-stringed lute, and is said to be the only woman who plays this instrument.

Her self-named album features her singing and playing the kamele n'goni, accompanied by balafon and flute. It has been released on Honest Jon's, a record label run by Damon Albarn.

Her work is also featured on Damon Albarn's 2002 album, Mali Music.

Editorial summary

“Ko Kan Ko Sata” enters the record as malian musician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sata, Malian and musician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sata, Malian and musician.
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Why this record matters

“Ko Kan Ko Sata” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sata, Malian and musician provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4977103. VIAF identifies the subject as 56306435. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ko Kan Ko Sata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.