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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 ...

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Rooted in natural resources and local craftsmanship, find out how India's traditional creative industry embodies the principles of sustainability.

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 ...

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 ...

His new album honours the essential workers of Bamako—street water vendors, itinerant tailors, and housekeepers.

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 ...