Including the following songs: a healing song from Madagascar; rhythmic drumming from the Malinke peoples of French Guinea, West Africa; a song that pays homage to a king from North Madagascar; music ...

Moctar, who writes most of his songs in the Tuareg language Tamasheq ... He’s acutely aware of his position as an African artist playing political music for an audience largely composed of ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the Tuareg were the last of the West African peoples to be pacified by the French, and their lands were absorbed into parts of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.