The Mali 100, Presented By Afropop Worldwide Mali is currently a country in crisis. Yet this West African country boasts one of the world's richest musical traditions, and iconic artists like Ali ...

Google, working with historians from West Africa, has been working to digitize contemporary art, cultural and historic sites about Mali, and the digital library went live on Google Art & Culture ...

Solo, 43, born Souleymane Traoré (Neba is the name of his village), has earned national medals in Mali, but is little known outside the region. His albums are locally released and hard to find.

There is something eerie in Oumou Sangare’s sound: A religiosity, perhaps, in the single notes from the kamalengoni, a traditional Mali harp, a sense of constant movement in the circular rhythms ...

This ominous line references the past few years’ proliferation of Islamist extremist activity in Mali. In 2013, Robin Denselow of the Guardian reported that music had been “banned across much ...

This troupe is playing an important role to carry forward the indigenous music and dance traditions of Mali related to TAMAN, an age-old percussion musical instrument native to Mali and West Africa.

“Music in Mali” is a feature-length documentary that takes an in-depth look into West Africa’s country of Mali and the musical culture that formed from its ancient Manding Empire. Narrated by Danny ...

A perspective on the uprisings of 2012 in Northern Mali and their implications few others ...

Rita Ray - DJ, broadcaster and singer from 70s and 80s Rhythm and Blues revival band, Darts - travels to Mali, Nigeria and South Africa in search of the timeless ancient rhythms, instruments and ...