Baaba Maal
Alive AG Television CD World music

For years, well-intentioned labels and publicists pushed Africa as some single monolithic entity rather than a collection of diverse countries, each w...

Any album is a monologue, our chance to hear another person set up a theme and then elaborate on it. The other person is sometimes a group of people, ...

In a nutshell... Senegalese star formats his music for widescreen.What's it all aboutMade in London and the Senegalese capital Dakar, this album was ...

It was a surprise to learn that Brian Eno wasn't involved in this multilayered, subtly textured album. For example, the slowly building "International...

While purists may not approve, the Senegalese singer-activist’s shift towards mainstream pop brings distinct benefits, especially with the lissom voca...

Aside from last year’s live, acoustic download/vinyl-only album On The Road, Baaba Maal’s most recent studio recording was the fine back-to-roots Miss...

It's been a long time since we heard a new studio album from one of Africa's key singers, but fans of the Senegal griot will be relieved to hear that ...