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,…
Mory Kanté
Arts + Culture
A Guinean kora player made “Yéké Yéké” a European dance-floor hit in 1988. Mory Kanté’s million seller
Mory Kanté, a griot from Guinea who once sang with the Rail Band of Bamako, released "Yéké Yéké"…