Mali is a country renowned for its music, but in 2012, the music stopped. That year, separatist rebels and Islamic groups seized two-thirds of the country and banned any expression of art. While ...
SOAS, University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The untimely death of Mali’s Toumani Diabaté at the age of 58 has shocked the music world. The sheer number of tributes, ...
With genre-mixing albums and concerts, Mr. Diabaté brought the ancient 21-string kora from West Africa to a global audience. Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the ...
In the gripping documentary, They Will Have To Kill Us First, North Malian artists who were forbidden to play under the music ban of the extremist Sharia Law refuse to be silenced. In the midsts of ...
I don't want to underplay the importance of the political crisis and now war in the West African country of Mali, but to most Americans it's a non-starter. Where is Mali? What's the connection to ...
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Music documentaries are thick on the land, and political ones are numerous as well, but “Mali Blues” is different in that it artfully combines hypnotic music with definite societal concerns. If you ...
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Mali is a country renowned for its music, but in 2012, the music stopped. Mali is a country renowned for its music, but in 2012, the music stopped. That year, separatist rebels and Islamic groups ...