[copy of the e-mail I sent to a friend headed to Mali, West Africa, for a month] Music Bamako is famous internationally for it’s traditional music, but it also has a really fun hip hop/dance scene. Here’s a few videos I’ve kept links to that were popular about 5 years ago, from Mali and Senegal. A very different kind of music: Deski la Bombe – Bamako DJ Zidane – Guantamamo Aladji – Coupé Décalé Books Segu by Maryse Conde A saga in the style of One Hundred Years of Solitude– spanning generations and geography of one family, telling the history of Mali from Malian empire to the simultaneous invasions of Islamic traders from the North and French colonists from the West, and how these interacted to bring down the empire More
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