Yusupha Mboob is another Gambian mbalax heart-throb struggling hard to gain international recognition. He is currently based in Austria where he is active in music more than ever before. Born and ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It opens with a tribute to Habib Faye, the bassist who was a mainstay of many of N’Dour’s bands and who died ...