Hama Sankare's 'Ballebe: Calling All Africans' is a great example of Malian desert blues.
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Interview: Vasudev Murthy – Author of ‘Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Timbuktu’
Interview with Vasudev Murphy, author of "Sherlock Holmes The Missing Years - Timbuktu"
Read More »Music Review: Tinariwen – ‘Live in Paris, Oukis N’Asuf’
Tinariwen's 'Live in Paris, Oukis N'Asuf' is an album of great music by an exciting band and as good a concert disc as any you'll ever hear.
Read More »Concert Review: Bassekou Kouyate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC, 10/30/14)
Kouyate is so heavily identified with the West African lute called the ngoni that the instrument's Wikipedia page features a photo of him.
Read More »Peace Plan for War-Torn Mali Needs School Meals
If funding does not come through for Mali, the children will pay a price, and you cannot build or rebuild a country with children missing out on education.
Read More »Music Review: Tamikrest – ‘Chatma’
Building on the foundations laid by earlier Touareg bands, Tamikrest have created their own sound and message.
Read More »The World Needs More School Meals
Some members of Congress want these budgets made responsibly, and are desperately trying to get the fight against hunger at the top of the foreign policy agenda.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Music, Culture & Conflict In Mali’ by Andy Morgan
A perspective on the uprisings of 2012 in Northern Mali and their implications few others could provide.
Read More »CRS wants McGovern-Dole Expanded to Fight World Hunger
CRS is calling on Congress to increase funding for the McGovern-Dole global school meals program
Read More »Music Review: Various Artists – Live from Festival au Desert, Timbuktu
This is as close as you can get to being at Festival au Desert without actually travelling to the Sahara Desert.
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