Songhoy Blues Music in Exile 23 Feb 2015 When you’re exiled to another nation, how does one express the plight of both yourself and your fellow countrymen? Simple, through one of the few universal languages there are: Music. At least, this is the thought behind the members of Songhoy Blues, which consists of Malian refugees, […]
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Music in Exile: an interview with Songhoy Blues
From the great array of Malian ethnic groups comes the Songhai, once a self-designated ethnic and linguistic culture, arising from the banks of the River Niger amid the ancient cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Over the course of the 15th and 16th Centuries, the Songhai Empire spread itself over the arid lands between the Sahara and the Sudanian Savanna, eliciting itself as a […]