Those of us who like to think of music as an intrinsically chaste art form strong-armed into relationships with businesspeople who contort and corrupt creative expression into commercial product will ...

“World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a “World music,” a term for music made by everybody who doesn’t happen to look or sound like us, is a ...

Sterns Music's lovingly put-together compilations of work by stars of Francophone West African music's "belle époque"—the decade and a half accompanying and immediately following the independence ...

A few years ago, the man behind the Buena Vista Social Club, Nick Gold, approached a group of Senegalese musicians he was crazy about — the Orchestra Baobab. In the 1970s and '80s, they were masters ...

In the 1970s, the musical environment of Senegal was ready for a revolution. Orchestra Baobab delivered. Combining a variety of established popular styles from Casamance, Ghana, Congo and Cuba, the ...

A child with a bucket of the fruit of a baobab tree alongside a giant baobab tree in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, on Sept. 20, 2017. Africa's ancient baobabs, with it's distinctive swollen trunk and known ...

The bottles boasting Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache could be from any Parisian supermarket but a closer look reveals this is wine with a difference -- nurtured in the unforgiving soil of Africa's ...

DAKAR, Dec 19 (Reuters) - At the foot of a towering baobab tree outside Senegal's capital Dakar on Saturday, cameras flashed in the waning dusklight as 20-year old Najeebah Samuel strode down the ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Wide, awkward baobab trees blend into the cityscape of Dakar, the busy capital of Senegal, almost without notice. Drivers wash a fleet of taxis parked beneath one giant tree near a ...

Well-traveled food lovers of the Bay Area know the Mission’s Little Baobab is exceptionally small. They also know that hunching over a plate of lamb dibi while elbow-to-elbow with a guest at the next ...