Pape Diouf is a master of Mbalax, a kinetic and irrepressible fusion of Western influences — soul, jazz, Latin, the works — with the traditional drumming of sabar, a Senegalese instrument once used to ...

25 January 2007 The woodcraft comes from Casamance, South of Senegal and the city makes drums, statues and masks like no other, from a special type of teak wood. Welcome to the Senegal pavilion in the ...

Abdou Mboup's skills as a percussionist and kora player have led to collaborations with the likes of Johnny Clegg, Claude Nougaro, Nina Simone and Michel Pettruciani. After 25 years in the U.S. he's ...

Senegal has a rich history of traditional music - and this lives on as it influences the west African country's modern music today. As a cultural researcher, I set out to explore the social and ...

In the early 1980s, Senegalese singer Youssou N'dour performed at the Africa Centre in London as part of a club night called the Limpopo Club. It was the first time mbalax, the dance music popular in ...

It fuses the sabar and talking drum-driven rhythms of Senegal’s mbalax music with the German’s touch for techno and dub. Mbalax was born in Senegal in the early 1970s and is seen as a fusion of ...

Maréma sings in Wolof, Bambara and French and says her ambition is to be an international star, "win lots of prizes and represent her country all over the world". "What like Angelique Kidjo?" I ask.

Five drummers showered the audience with the perspiration flying from their blurred hands as they struggled to bring enough air through their nostrils, their mouths full of wadded up francs stuffed ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Senegal has a rich history of traditional music – and this lives on as it influences the west African country's modern music today. As a cultural researcher, I set out to ...