Youssou Ndour has been included in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 200 greatest singers of all time. Youssou Ndour is ranked 69th on the list, ahead of singers such as Michael Jackson and Bob Marley who are ranked 86th and 98th respectively. “It is with great honour and gratitude […]
Senegalese music has just discovered a new star. Mouhamed Vj or VJ for short is a young Senegalese artist who is making the buzz at the moment. Yesterday at the esplanade of the Grand Theatre he managed to block the traffic for hours. His concert was finally cancelled because the […]
The Senegalese international singer and composer El Hadj Beydi Baaba Maal, leader of the Dandé Lenol Music group has lost his nephew Adama Niass, on Thursday 8 December 2022. Niasse died in a car accident on the Senegalese autoroute. In the wake of this sad news, the international festival Blues […]
This article offers a critical analysis of Beast, a 2022 American survival thriller film that features Gambian international kora virtuoso, Sona Jobarteh. The story follows a widowed father and his two teenage daughters who visit a South African game reserve, Mopani Reserve, but must fight to survive when they are […]