Those of us who like to think of music as an intrinsically chaste art form strong-armed into relationships with businesspeople who contort and corrupt creative expression into commercial product will ...

“World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a “World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a ...

The bottles boasting Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache could be from any Parisian supermarket but a closer look reveals this is wine with a difference -- nurtured in the unforgiving soil of Africa's ...

A few years ago, the man behind the Buena Vista Social Club, Nick Gold, approached a group of Senegalese musicians he was crazy about — the Orchestra Baobab. In the 1970s and '80s, they were masters ...

Sterns Music's lovingly put-together compilations of work by stars of Francophone West African music's "belle époque"—the decade and a half accompanying and immediately following the independence ...

A child with a bucket of the fruit of a baobab tree alongside a giant baobab tree in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, on Sept. 20, 2017. Africa's ancient baobabs, with it's distinctive swollen trunk and known ...

In the 1970s, the musical environment of Senegal was ready for a revolution. Orchestra Baobab delivered. Combining a variety of established popular styles from Casamance, Ghana, Congo and Cuba, the ...

Well-traveled food lovers of the Bay Area know the Mission’s Little Baobab is exceptionally small. They also know that hunching over a plate of lamb dibi while elbow-to-elbow with a guest at the next ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Wide, awkward baobab trees blend into the cityscape of Dakar, the busy capital of Senegal, almost without notice. Drivers wash a fleet of taxis parked beneath one giant tree near a ...