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Bambara, Festival in the Desert, Leila Gobi, Mali music, Mamadou Kelly, Mauritania music, Menaka, Noura Mint Seymali, Timbuktu, Tropicalia, Tuareg music
Last night I attended Tropicalia’s ‘Festival in the Desert’ with the Mauritanian Diva, Noura Mint Seymali, Mamadou Kelly, an ethnic Bambara from the Timbuktu Region of Mali, and Leila Gobi, from Menaka, in the Gao Region of Mali, an area which saw a lot of fighting between Tuareg separatists and Islamist militants. Continue reading