New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Ballroom Marfa presents "Utopian Futures," featuring world renowned flutist, conceptualist, composer Nicole Mitchell in solo and group interplay with a special configuration of Rob Mazurek's ...

Mali’s exhilarating desert blues exiles find an acoustic home The post Songhoy Blues – Héritage appeared first on UNCUT.

01/27/2025 January 27, 2025 Young environmentalists in Mali's capital Bamako are working to clear drains, collect waste and identify recyclables. It's hoped these simple measures designed to ...

Weedie Braimah is a djembefola (a master of the djembe drum), and a force of nature. Born in Ghana and raised in East St. Louis by two world-class drummers, his father Ghanaian and his mother American ...

File-An unidentified representative of the junta waves as Malians supporting the recent overthrow of President Ibrahim Keita in the capital Bamako, Mali in Aug. 21, 2020. - Three junta-ruled ...

Bamako is a melting pot of music and various traditions ... a graceful dance nodding to the women who organize celebratory ceremonies, a staple of the Mali culture but banned in the north. Toure’s ...

For the new transition government led by Ahmad Al-Sharaa, unifying all of Syria’s armed groups to form a national army is crucial to rebuilding a viable country. On Monday, an important step was ...

Donald Trump pronounced the start of a "golden age" in the United States after taking the oath for a historic second term as president on Monday, using his inaugural speech to lash out at what he ...

A Russian military column , reportedly larger and better equipped than the entire Malian army, has been spotted in Mali, a Ukrainian military outlet Defense Express reported on January 20. The convoy, ...

The movement denounces a “stratagem orchestrated” by the “Bamako junta” in exchange for financial compensation. “Since the resumption of the war (…) in 2023, never has a vehicle and its weapons ...

Displaced from their home in the North of the country due to the civil war that broke out in Mali in 2012, the band settled in their new home in the capital of Bamako, where they were given more ...