Arts + Culture
Oumou Sangaré sang against polygamy and forced marriage. Mali made her a star anyway
Oumou Sangaré, the Malian singer known as the Songbird of Wassoulou, became a star in 1989 with Moussolou,…
Mali
Arts + Culture
They met at an institute for the blind in Bamako. Amadou & Mariam took Malian music around the world
Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind and became the duo known…
Arts + Culture
They learned guitar in rebel camps in Libya. In 2012 Tinariwen won a Grammy
Tinariwen formed in the late 1970s among Tuareg exiles in Libya and Algeria, playing electric guitar songs about…
Arts + Culture
A descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, cast out for being albino, became Africa’s Golden Voice
Salif Keita is a descendant of Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire. Born with albinism and rejected…