At the age of 88, barefoot and cinched into a belt of cowrie shells, renowned singer Mariam Bagayoko still sweeps across the ...

GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 01: Salif Keita performs on stage during the Celtic Connections festival at The Old Fruit Market on February 1, 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ross ...

Malian music legend Salif Keïta withdrew from the Macufe festival in Free State province, citing xenophobic violence against ...

Sory Bamba, a Malian music pioneer, spends his days ensconced in the courtyard of his home in the old quarter of Mopti, a town in the centre of the country on the edge of the Sahara. One of the ...

For years, Mali’s Festival in the Desert has been hosted as an annual block party on the dry lands of the former French colony. In the villages and rural communes of Essakane and on the outskirts of ...

Amadou Bagayoko (1954-2025), iconic Malian guitarist, singer and composer of the famed duo Amadou & Mariam – known as “the blind couple of Mali” – passed away on 4 April in Bamako. He was 70. The ...

Fatoumata Diawara lives in Paris currently, but she is a musician in exile. In this, she is not alone. Diawara’s native Mali, a nation that, perhaps more than any other, defines itself through its ...

Amadou Bagayoko, the award-winning Malian singer and guitarist in the husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam, has died, according to The Associated Press. In a local televised broadcast, Mali’s Minister ...

Grammy-nominated Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who won global fame by moulding traditional West African sounds with Western rock and pop influences as one half of the blind duo Amadou and Mariam, ...

The death of the guitar virtuoso Amadou Bagayoko triggered tributes from around the world – Copyright AFP MANDEL NGAN Thousands of people gathered in Bamako on ...

LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - As musicians from Mali took to a London stage on Saturday night, news was announced that back home French troops had captured the airport of the Islamist-controlled city of ...

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