It was on April 10 -11, 2000 that former Gambian dictator, Yahya Jammeh, commanded his troops to senseless and brutally gunned down over a dozen student demonstrators for merely demanding justice over ...

The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

He was 70. The married singers, who met when she was 18 and he 21, took traditional Mali music and blended it with western rock and many other influences to shape a whole new sound that was both ...

Grammy-nominated Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who won global fame by moulding traditional West African sounds with ...

Friends, relatives, fans and fellow artists flocked to the ceremony in the Malian capital Bamako ... dressed in black but many had opted for traditional white robes known as boubous.

The two combined traditional African instruments with more Western-inspired rock, pop, and blues in the hopes of making Malian music universal. On some records, that meant invoking their regional ...

Alongside his wife and musical partner Mariam Doumbia, Amadou became globally renowned for blending traditional Malian sounds with rock and blues, selling millions of records. For all latest news ...