Since her international début in 1997, Malian singer songwriter Rokia Traoré (b. 1974) has always managed to strike an interesting balance between tradition and innovation. A ngoni and balafon player, she mainly sings in the Bambara language and draws inspiration from the rich tradition of the Mandé song repertoire or from other ... [Continue Reading]
Rokia Traoré
Rokia Traoré: Titati/Africa Unite
Malian singer songwriter Rokia Traoré’s “Roots” project emerged as a continuation of the Desdemona multimedia collaboration she contributed to in 2011. Written by American novelist and 1993 Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison and staged by experimental theatre director Peter Sellars, [amazon text=Desdemona&asin=1849433895] is ... [Continue Reading]