Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. One of West Africa's most celebrated vocalists, Sangaré infuses her music ...

In 1992, the UK label Stern's released the first of two groundbreaking compilations called Women of Mali. Subtitled "The Wassoulou Sound", they were partly prompted by the massive international ...

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Located around the tri-border meeting point of Mali, Ivory Coast, and Guinea, the Wasulu region is home to one of the most unique confluences of culture and identity in West Africa. Renowned for ...

The Malian singer Oumou Sangare burst onto the West African music scene when she released her first album, Moussolou, on cassette in 1990. I was living in Tokyo at the time and African friends told me ...

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Johannesburg — When an African nation reflects America in its music, there's often puzzlement or anger that "authenticity" has been squeezed out by an alien modernism, and in the scholarly ...