14/01/2013
A brief listening tour of the amazing music of Mali
pWhen Islamist extremists took over the northern half of Mali, an African country that is economically poor but rich in culture, one of their a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/14/how-bad-are-the-bad-guys-in-mali-the-answer-in-four-powerful-paragraphs/"more barbaric impositions/a was to ban music. To understand why this has been so painful for Malians, why The Post's Sudarsan Raghavan a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-northern-mali-music-silenced-as-islamists-drive-out-artists/2012/11/30/110ea016-300c-11e2-af17-67abba0676e2_story.html"called it/a "a shattering of their culture" after visiting the country, you have to listen to the music yourself./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/a-brief-listening-tour-of-the-amazing-music-of-mali/2013/01/14/4eeccd24-5e77-11e2-8acb-ab5cb77e95c8_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2783a511/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/153443216925/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2783a511/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/153443216925/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2783a511/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/153443216925/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2783a511/a2t.img" border="0"/
