With genre-mixing albums and concerts, Mr. Diabaté brought the ancient 21-string kora from West Africa to a global audience. Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the ...

Mali Music continues to create inspirational music on his own terms, and theGrio caught up with him to find out how the coronavirus quarantine is affecting his process while creating a new EP. The ...

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As a small child, Oumou Sangaré sang on the streets in Mali to raise money for her mom and siblings. Now she can’t walk down the streets of Bamako without drawing a crowd of people who want to talk ...

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit ...

SOAS, University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The untimely death of Mali’s Toumani Diabaté at the age of 58 has shocked the music world. The sheer number of tributes, ...

African multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré had become a legend by the time he died in 2006. His music was used in a song for “Black Panther,” and he was thought of as a pioneer of African desert ...

NPR's Elizabeth Blair profiles Malian musician Salif Keita, one of the master's of the "world music" movement. Keita moved back to Mali recently after living and working in France for 16 years. His ...

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 ...