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Baaba Maal

June 2024

  • Mansour Seck performing at the Barbican Centre in London, May 2023.

    Mansour Seck obituary

    Senegalese musician in the ‘griot’ tradition, best known for his long-term collaboration with Baaba Maal

March 2023

  • Simon Emmerson, centre, performing with Moussa Sissokho and N'Faly Kouyate of Afro Celt Sound System at the Glastonbury festival in 1999.

    Simon Emmerson obituary

  • Walton Dangarembizi

    Other lives
    Walton Dangarembizi obituary

May 2018

  • Baaba Maal Performs At Union Chapel, London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 26: Baaba Maal performs at the Union Chapel on April 26, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Robin Little/Redferns)

    Baaba Maal review – Senegalese superstar goes back to basics

    Armed with just his acoustic guitar, the singer reminded us what a remarkable musician he is

June 2016

  • The crowd for Madness at Glastonbury

    New Order, James Blake and more reviewed – Saturday's music at Glastonbury 2016

    From Anna Meredith in the morning to New Order at night, our writers were out and about yesterday scouring Glastonbury for the best music

February 2016

  • Senegalese singer Youssou N’dour performing at Womad

    Africa's first music download service launches in Senegal

    Youssou N’dour and Baaba Maal are among almost 200 artists who have signed up to MusikBi, which promises to promote and pay African musicians

January 2016

  • Baaba Maal Performs At The Royal Festival Hall In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 20: Baaba Maal performs at the Royal Festival Hall on January 20, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Robin Little/Redferns)

    Baaba Maal review – brilliant, annoying but always unexpected

    Showcasing his first new album in seven years, the Sengalese superstar was on impressive, if occasionally frustrating, form
  • Baaba Maal

    Baaba Maal: The Traveller review – where tradition meets Auto-Tune

    The Senegalese superstar travels in all directions on his 11th studio album

    • Top 10 picks of Celtic Connections 2016

    • Senegal: a trip to Baaba Maal's music festival

    • Baaba Maal's music festival - in pictures

October 2014

  • Pharell Williams

    Music blog
    The BBC's God Only Knows cover – every performance reviewed and rated

    The BBC’s new promo clip was unveiled on Wednesday night. But who brought the starpower? Who fell flat? And was the BBC taking the mickey out of Chris Martin?

October 2013

  • Rachid Taha (l) on stage in Marseille with Fatoumata Diawara (far right), October 2013

    Africa Express in Marseille - review

    The music collective rolled into town with performances from Bassekou Kouyate, Jupiter Bokondji and Damon Albarn, among many others, who kept the crowd going all night

May 2013

  • Noisettes Perform At KOKO In London

    Guardian Africa network
    Zimbabwe: Harare arts festival offers upbeat image of a country in turmoil

    Musicians mingle with poets and authors in Zimbabwe's capital for event dubbed the 'Glastonbury of southern Africa'

February 2013

  • Sister Fa

    Sister Fa: African rapper with a cause

    Kate Mossman meets the Senegalese rapper who has become one of the world's leading campaigners against female genital mutilation

September 2012

  • Africa Express: Paul McCartney and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage part two - video

    The Africa Express tour, featuring over 80 musicians including Damon Albarn and Baaba Maal, finished its epic tour of the UK by train with a gig at Granary Square in King's Cross in London. Among the special guests on the night was Sir Paul McCartney, who joined the collective to play two old Wings songs – and you can see footage here in this exclusive film

  • Africa Express

    Africa Express – review

    It's not every day Damon Albarn, Baaba Maal, Tony Allen, Carl Barât, Rokia Traoré and Joy Division's Peter Hook play a gig together, writes Caspar Llewellyn Smith

    • Africa Express: rolling coverage, days four and five

    • New Africa
      African cinema: ten of the best

    • Africa Express provides a moveable platform

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