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Boubacar Traoré
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Tinariwen
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Ali Farka Touré
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Fatoumata Diawara
122,412 listeners
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Oumou Sangare
116,726 listeners
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Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
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Bombino
101,527 listeners
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Orchestra Baobab
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Tamikrest
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Tamikrest are a group of young Touareg musicians from the far north of Mali, where the parched landscape forms part of the Sahara desert. T… read moreTamikrest are a group of young Touareg musicians from the far north of Mali, where the parched landscape forms part of the Sahara desert. Their name means ‘the knot, junction or coalition’, a reference to the fact that the members hail f… read moreTamikrest are a group of young Touareg musicians from the far north of Mali, where the parched landscape forms part of the Sahara desert. Their name means ‘the knot, junction or coalition’, a reference to the fact that the members hail from different regions, and ‘Adagh’ is another name for the T… read more