Art for life’s sake” is the recognisable feature of Raisa Mariam Rajan’s creative journey. For her, art is not merely a ...

Blinded at the age of 15 due to early and severe cataracts, Amadou was born in his beloved Mali in 1954 and passed away this 4 April at the age of 70. Since the 1980s, his artistic journey and ...

Amadou Bagayoko and his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, rose from icons in Mali to international success over the last two ...

Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable.

I first met the writer, scholar and translator Mariam Rahmani 10 years ago in a diner in Brooklyn, N.Y., where we were introduced by our friend, Emma. We were both about to give up New York for L ...

In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of ...

The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

Mariam Shengelia is spreading her wings and heading to Switzerland. She’ll be representing Georgia at Eurovision with the liberating song, ‘Freedom’. The Georgian broadcaster chose their artist ...

Thousands of people gathered in Mali on Sunday for the funeral of musician Amadou Bagayoko, of the world-renowned duo Amadou ...