Sankoré is like a symphony. An orchestra laid out before you with its different parts and sections. You're standing in front of the conductor's music stand, notation sitting in bars and treble clefs and bass notes with 7/8 and 3/4 and forté and you would be forgive for thinking it's maybe all a bit too much at once. None of it really makes sense and yet everyone is looking at you to make sure they know how to play, and secondly, you've got to make sure that everyone has the best of times.  I'm used to simple terms, straight forward plays and easy to grasp concepts. Interestingly Sankoré provides all of these but then like an orchestra layers them up, so while you get the overall tune, you really need to concentrate to be able to pick out the individual instruments and how they relate to each other as well as how they play.  You're maybe wondering what a musical analogy has to do with the 14th Century, Mansa Musa and the University of Timbuktu. I'm not just t