Word: mali
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Next to perform was the Pan African Drum and Dance Troupe, a fairly new student group that focuses on traditional African dance. The troupe performed a “Didadi” dance, which originated from Mali. Generating an infectious amount of enthusiasm around Sanders, the troupe, with their rhythmic dancing and African chanting, were genuinely impressive. With smiles plastered on their faces, they clapped and stomped amidst audience cheers...
...there long ago. President of the Franco-African Association in Clichy-sous-Bois, the poor, high-rise community 20 km east of Paris where the rioting began, Siby figures one thing is as true in France today as it was when he was growing up in a village in Mali: "If you want to be trusted by people, you have to trust them yourself." France, he says, has failed to create that virtuous circle...
World music doesn't have a reputation for fun, and Amadou & Mariam, the self-proclaimed Blind Couple of Mali, might not seem the likeliest candidates to rock the boat. But a) they wear the coolest shades in the history of sightlessness, and b) they have partnered with Spanish-French producer Manu Chao, whose interest in multiculturalism stops at every country's best pop hooks. Listening to the fusion of Amadou & Mariam's polyrhythmic blues with Chao's exuberant rip-offs is like watching another nation's most hysterically bad TV; you feel as if you're learning something, even though...
...Amadou & Mariam Dimanche A Bamako; $18.98 World music doesn't have a reputation for fun, and Amadou & Mariam, the self-proclaimed Blind Couple of Mali, might not seem the likeliest candidates to rock the boat. But a) they wear the coolest shades in the history of sightlessness, and b) they have partnered with Spanish-French producer Manu Chao, whose interest in multiculturalism stops at every country's best pop hooks. Listening to the fusion of Amadou & Mariam's polyrhythmic blues with Chao's exuberant rip-offs is like watching another nation's most hysterically bad TV; you feel...
...outside their countries, and about half the college graduates of Sierra Leone and Ghana have also emigrated, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Remittances to poor countries can also mask the fact that they don't produce much at home. In the western Mali district of Kayes - where Waly's village of Ambadedi is located and where most migrants hail from - the region has done so well that farmers use remittances as a crutch. Studies have shown that they spend less time on their land than farmers in other parts of Mali: there...