Mali has been in the news this year: music there was under serious
threat from the fundamentalists that spread through the north of the
country and ransacked parts of the ancient city of Timbuktu. The
jihadists are hardly music-lovers and Mali’s creative community, one of
the most productive in Africa, while feeling the cold winds of Islamist
repression, stood firm and reacted with characteristic vigour. The
griots or
jalis of West Africa have always sung alongside the just warriors, giving them courage with their heart-warming music.....
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