Sory Bamba, a Malian music pioneer, spends his days ensconced in the courtyard of his home in the old quarter of Mopti, a town in the centre of the country on the edge of the Sahara. One of the ...

SEGOU, Mali (AP) — Long before Mali captured the global spotlight as an al-Qaida training ground where French soldiers had to intervene, the West African nation was celebrated for producing some of ...

Set to take the stage for the Afrika Nyaga Drum Festival’s 11th annual performance during PVDFest on Sept. 10, Malian Djembe Master Sidy Maïga and his selected group of artists were practicing ...

One of the leading exports from the landlocked West African country of Mali is music - a rich, soulful and technically demanding music that's enchanted American audiences for about three decades now.

LOMPOUL, Senegal, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Encircled by moon-lit sand dunes, desert blues band Tamikrest from Mali's northern city of Kidal was the headline act at a Sahel music festival this weekend, held ...

Guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the star Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 following an illness, his family told AFP on Friday, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind ...

Together with his wife Mariam, Amadou's music took him to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Amadou and Mariam met at the institute for the young blind in the Malian capital Bamako Amadou and Mariam ...