The album, out 28 November, was first hinted at during AFRIFF, where Flavour treated the audience to a short film showing his creative journey with Senegalese music legend Baaba Maal. Flavour is ...

“Afroculture” is another reminder that Flavour is not only an entertainer, he’s a cultural ambassador. Flavour N’abania never misses when it comes to showing off African culture in his music. The ...

Baaba, a short film written and directed by actor-turned director Utthara Unni Nithesh, has one on the edge of the seat wondering will he, won’t he or what if! Jaffer Idukki as Baaba, a man connected ...

On stage in his hometown of Podor is Baaba Maal, a globally renowned artist celebrated for his classical of work—especially his Oscar-winning soundtrack for the Hollywood film Black Panther—took the ...

Kevin E G Perry travels to Senegal to meet the man who is treated more like a prophet than a musician by his fellow countrymen. Festival pictures by Julian Hickman If you’ve read something you love on ...

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The Senegalese singer-songwriter known as the “voice of Wakanda” from the “Black Panther” films recommends sites to see in the place where he found his own voice. The Hotel Sobo Bade in the suburb of ...

Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, "Being." The ...

A frontline of percussionists on djembe, sabar and conga drums beat out a fierce welcome. Then, from somewhere behind us, there it was. The same voice that soared – giant, powerful, timeless – over a ...

The song celebrates fishermen, the clan from which Baabal Maal comes, rather than from a long line of griots, who would normally praise the rich and powerful. Many of the songs on this always intense ...

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal on Monday was named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification. Maal has long been an activist on climate change and refugees.