Mali's Tinariwen stops by the MFA tomorrow to deliver the message of the Tuareg people. This past summer, the band opened for the Rolling Stones in Dublin.
Songs of struggle, survival in Sahara
Band tells story of a resilient nomadic people
Mali's Tinariwen stops by the MFA tomorrow to deliver the message of the Tuareg people. This past summer, the band opened for the Rolling Stones in Dublin.
In the vast reaches of the southwestern Sahara Desert, where Algeria dips down and meets Mali and Niger, the Tuareg people continue a centuries-long struggle for self-determination. Over the ages, the wily desert nomads have held their own against powerful empires and ideologies, but now their cultural survival is partly tied to Mali's Tinariwen, a rock band that is bringing ... (Full article: 803 words)
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