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...Issa Rae made an official playlist featuring old-school rappers Salt-N-Pepa....
...“For me this is a catastrophe foretold,” says Issa N’Diaye, a professor of philosophy at the University of Bamako, of his city’s untrammelled growth. “Bamako is a time-bomb.”...
...EG was founded in 2001 in Blackburn, north-west England, by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa who inherited a single filling station from their father....
...A new generation of young singers — Youssou N’Dour, Maal himself — swept all that away, with their gritty mbalax. Baobab went into early retirement, and for two decades nothing was heard from them....
...Issa N’Diaye, a professor of philosophy at the University of Bamako, said that Mali’s political elite had surrendered the country’s sovereignty to France by agreeing to a rushed poll....
...Their rival, Youssou N’Dour, whose popularity knocked them into a 15-year hiatus, is off the scene to campaign for the presidency of Senegal; some years after their last album, and with no follow-up in sight...
...Mboub – who originally wrote and sang it but who died in a car crash in 1974 – and the antiphonic duel between the brilliant band leader and guitarist Barthelemy Attisso and the charismatic saxophonist Issa...
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