Rokia Traore's career belies the notion that you can't go home again. The 30-year-old singer was born in Mali but spent most of her formative years in Europe with her diplomatically connected family - ...

Most of the Malian music we get to hear in this country bears Western trappings–the drum machines in Issa Bagayogo’s songs, for example, or the funk bass that undergirds Oumou Sangare’s circular ...