Kanawa (2020)

"Authentic, powerful music from Mali with an urgent message to both fellow countrymen and the world. For four decades the singer Nahawa Doumbia has been an authority in her homeland Mali. With her warm and powerful singing she passionately calls for gender equality, peace and social justice. On the album Kanawa, produced by arranger Ngou Bagayoko, Doumbia sings in front of a large band with traditional and modern instruments. Her characteristic Didadi rhythms are combined with a fuller Malian pop sound. In the title track Kanawa she asks the United Nations and African leaders to find a solution for the immigration crisis. Because of poverty and unemployment many African youths leave their homes. They are looking for a better life, but many die along the way: they drown at sea or are killed at the borders. She calls for a legal solution: creating work and perspective in their own country." (Muziekweb)

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