Arts + Culture
Malick Sidibé: the photographer who captured Bamako’s youth dancing through the 1960s
Malick Sidibé photographed the parties, dances and youth culture of Bamako in the years after Mali's independence. His…
Bamako
Arts + Culture
Seydou Keïta: the Bamako studio photographer whose portraits reached the world’s museums
Seydou Keïta ran a portrait studio in Bamako from 1948, photographing thousands of Malians against patterned backdrops. His…
Music
Super Rail Band: the Bamako railway hotel band that launched Salif Keita and Mory Kanté
The Rail Band, formed in 1970 at the station hotel in Bamako, mixed Mande griot music with Cuban,…
Arts + Culture
His songs got him exiled from Côte d’Ivoire: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Françafrique and a concert for every school
Ivorian reggae singer Tiken Jah Fakoly, born Doumbia Moussa in Odienné, released his internationally successful album Françafrique in…