Seya means ‘joy’. Oumou Sangare’s new disc is very joyful, her voice magnificent, her musicians splendid. The Malian diva is delighting listeners, at home and abroad. Her original songs also make them ...

Malian women are tough, even ballsy. Ballsy and very feminine at the same time. It's a balancing act that few western divas I know of can pull off without looking as if they've used a life-coach and a ...

Or how about her command performance to the King of Swaziland, who already has seven wives? (His father had 32.) “Each year he has all the young girls, thousands of them, come out and dance, literally ...

Marlian singer Oumou Sangaré recently made waves on TikTok in Nigeria over her 1996 hit 'Kun Fe Yo' Nigerian TikTok users made videos with the song as they reinterpreted the lyrics with Yoruba songs ...