Oumou Sangaré
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Oumou Sangaré is a Malian Wassoulou singer of Fulani descent. She is often referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou". Wassoulou is a historical region south of the Niger River, where the music descen
Sangaré performing at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2009
At WOMEX, 2017
With her award at WOMEX 2017 in Katowice, Poland
Bamako
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Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern
Oumou Sangaré
…Wassoulou region of Mali. In 1970, her father took a second wife and moved to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, leaving Sangaré, her mother and her siblings behind in Bamako, the Malian capital. Sangaré began singing in the streets to help her mother, leaving school at an early age to do so. Her career began in 1973 when…
Place de la liberté Bamako
BCEAO Tower
Statue Cite Niger Bamako
NCC tower Bamako