Mali Music made a name for himself with his major album release Mali Is in 2014, but the Savannah, Georgia artist has been performing since he was little boy in the church choir. But even though he's ...

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Habib Koité of Mali was born one of 18 children into a long line of griots, traditional African storytellers, but his verse in the family history would take a modern turn. Like the guitar he plays, ...

Fatoumata Diawara sings for the women of her home village about female genital mutilation, a ritual still practiced in Mali. The steady, stinging pluck of Bassekou Kouyaté’s ngoni, the traditional, ...

I longed, for so long, to visit Mali. What I loved in my imagination before ever setting eyes on the enormous West African country was its ancient culture: the intricately carved, semiabstract ...

Deep within Mali’s heart, Djenne beckons with its captivating blend of culture and history. At its core, the Great Mosque of Djenne rises proudly as the world’s largest mud-brick structure and a ...

On their seventh album, Folila, Malian guitarist Amadou Bagayoko and his singing wife Mariam Doumbia exploit Western pop with as much cross-cultural savvy as Paul Simon, David Byrne, or tUnE-yArDs ...

The steady, stinging pluck of Bassekou Kouyaté’s ngoni, the traditional, lute-like African stringed instrument, suggests dust hitting your face on a Sahel wind at dusk, when the day at last starts to ...