All 3,000 seats in the cavernous Palace of Culture in Bamako had been snapped up, and the mood was at fever pitch as the TV dance competition reached its climax. The three finalists took to…
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‘Father of African photography’ wows a new generation
They came in their best clothes and queued in their hundreds every day outside the little mud-walled house in Bamako to be immortalised by “the master”. “One shot, that’s all I take,” Seydou Keita, the…
TV cabbie drives viewers to laugh at Mali life
“This taxi is no ordinary taxi,” shouts the driver, allowing his customer a moment to settle in the back seat before propelling his cab down the streets of Bamako, talking a mile a minute. The…
#ArtNews: The Godfather gets African look for Mali exhibition
To the casual observer, the black-and-white stills of Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and Diane Keaton look like run-of-the-mill publicity shots for Francis Ford Coppola’s classic mafia caper The Godfather. A closer inspection of the photo series…
Malian artists launch peace song
Some of Mali’s biggest artists have composed a song for peace in a country where the Army, backed by French troops, is battling to drive out Islamist extremists occupying the western desert north. The seven-minute…