Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.Tens ...

Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has transformed the lives of ...

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

Corruption thrives in a culture of silence and fear, especially when whistleblowers face retaliation after they have exposed wrongdoings. In Kenya, whistleblowers have played pivotal roles in ...

"Papa died today in Bamako. We are all in shock ... The work was banned by the Malian Ministry of Culture and Cissé was arrested and jailed on trumped up charges of accepting French funding.

"Papa died today in Bamako. We are all in shock ... that the Sahel country's film industry was in "mourning" , while Culture Minister Mamou Daffé lamented the loss "of this monument of African ...

Situated in different countries on different continents, Kettly Noël in Bamako, Mali, and Charmene Pang in Reykjavík ... What does it tell about the land and what does it say about its culture? And ...

Mali's Culture Minister Mamou Daffé lamented the ... His last film in 1995 was Waati (Time). Cissé was born in Bamako, and spent part of his childhood in neighbouring Senegal.