country: Mali

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  program May 8, 2013

  Afropop Roadshow: Spotlight Sierra Leone

  Afropop’s Roadshow series continues with a focus on new music and interviews from Sierra Leone. Electric Bubu music from Janka Nabay, hip hop from Bajah and The Dry Eye Crew, the latest from Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, and introducing the … Read more »

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  review May 3, 2013

  Mali Meets Latin America: Remix EP

  Last year we reviewed Amadou & Mariam’s seventh studio album, Folila, and our feelings were a little mixed- we loved the sound, but we also couldn’t help ourselves from thinking that we heard it before. The album was chock full … Read more »

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  blog April 19, 2013

  Cheick Hamala Diabate: Prudence EP and Record Release Show

  As everyone who’s tuned into our NPR Music mix- or really, paid any attention to Afropop EVER has noticed, we are pretty intense fans of Malian music over here. And while we love the traditional stuff, we’ve always felt that … Read more »

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  review April 10, 2013

  Jama Ko

  Bassekou Kouyate, the pre-eminent master of the humble West African spike lute—called ngoni in Mali—offers a grand summation of musical, personal, and even military history in his third CD with the group Ngoni Ba.  First, there have been some changes … Read more »

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  interview April 8, 2013

  Fatoumata Diawara and Amkoullel on Situation in Mali

  In a 2013 update to Afropop’s ongoing series of artist conversations on the situation in Mali, we offer the thoughts of two young, highly engaged artists. Fatoumata Diawara is perhaps the most celebrated singer to emerge from Mali in the … Read more »