Our Afropop Vignettes series this time focuses on women—Oumou Sangare from Mali, Gigi from Ethiopia, Miriam Makeba from South Africa, and Dobet Gnaore from the Ivory Coast. To find out more about these artists, here are links to interviews and photographs 

Interview with Oumou Sangare

http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/4

Report and photos of Dobe Gnaore at Strictly Mundial 2005

http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/469:

Interview with Gigi

http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/50