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Tribute to Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tribute-almamy-samore-lafiya-toure/

Guinean band Bembeya Jazz National commemorated Samori Ture (Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure) in their 1969 release “Regard sur le passé.” The album draws upon Mandinka Djeli traditions and consists of two epic recordings recounting Ture’s anti-colonial resistance and nation-building. […]

#60smusic #Guinea #Wassoulou

African Music Forum (AMF)Jan 15

“And so Les Amazones d’Afrique were born…”

https://amf.didiermary.fr/amazones-afrique-dahomey-women-warriors/

Les Amazones d’Afrique is a collective of female stars including Angélique Kidjo, Mariam Doumbia, Nneka and many more. It started singing out in 2014 against gender inequality in West Africa over a soundtrack of Funk, Blues, Dub and Electro.

The first track they released was “I Play The Kora” from their album [...]

#AngéliqueKidjo #Bénin #Mali #Nigeria #TV #Wassoulou

Headlines Africa Nov 4

Africa: The Women of Wassoulou Music - a Primer: [Afropop] Located around the tri-border meeting point of Mali, Ivory Coast, and Guinea, the Wasulu region is home to one of the most unique confluences of culture and identity in West Africa. Renowned for traditionally being hunters, the inhabitants of this region are "of Fula lineage; their cultural framework falls within the Maninka-Bamana matrix; and these two identities… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TP3T6d #Wassoulou #Afropop #WestAfrica #Mali #IvoryCoast

FinbarrF Oct 27

Today's music:

Fatoumata Diawara - Yada

https://youtu.be/oB9vm8KegrI

#blues #MaliBlues #wassoulou #mali #music #np #NowPlaying #MastoMusic

Fatoumata Diawara - Yada (Official Video)

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African Music Forum (AMF)May 27, 2025

Miss Maawa – Bi Fourou (2009)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/miss-maawa-bi-fourou-2009/

Miss Maawa, aka Miss Maawa “Malaika,” was born in 1982 in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. The daughter of singer Kagbe Sidibe is following in her mother’s footsteps in the Wassoulou genre of music.

She began her solo career at the age of 17 with the release of her first album in Ivory Coast “Laihilalailala,” followed […]

#CoteDIvoire #Mali #Wassoulou

Miss Maawa - Bi Fourou (2009) - African Music Forum

Miss Maawa - Bi Fourou (2009) - The daughter of singer Kagbe Sidibe is following in her mother's footsteps in the Wassoulou genre of music.

African Music Forum

African Music Forum (AMF)May 6, 2025

Wagadu Grooves

https://amf.didiermary.fr/wagadu-grooves/

Gaye Mody Camara, born in Abidjan, raised in Kayes, Mali, founded Camara Production in Paris and produced music for the West African diasporas between the years 1990 to 2010. His roster included artists from Mali, such as Aïchata Sidibé, and also from Sénégal, Mauritania, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso or Gambia. […]

#80smusic #90smusic #Compilation #Wassoulou #Zouk