African music and films
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The West African country of Mali is a cradle of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam becomes more widespread, secular music is prohibited, instruments are destroyed and musicians are forced to flee their homeland. Mali Blues follows four artists. Fatoumata "Fatou" Diawara is a rising star on the global pop scene, memorably f...
