Mali defies jihadists with Bamako festival
Just over two months after the terror attacks which killed 20, Damon Albarn and Songhoy Blues transform the Malian capital for the first Acoustic Bamako festival
News By | 2 February 2016
Damon Albarn and African acts Tony Allen and Songhoy Blues were among the artists who played the inaugural Acoustic Bamako festival (Festival Acoustik) – the first to be held in Mali’s capital since the terrorist attack of 20 November – last weekend.
Malian musician Toumani Diabaté, who organised the event, says he plans to turn the festival into an annual event.
The west African country has been under a nationwide state of emergency since al-Qaeda-linked jihadists killed 20 people in an attack on the Radisson Blue…
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