Baaba Maal

The follow up to 2009's 'Warm Heart Of Africa' features Amadou & Mariam, Baaba Maal and K'naan

Singer Esau Mwamwaya and producer Johan Hugo (of Radioclit) will release new music as the Very Best once again. Their new studio album MTMTMK, which follows last year's Super Mom mixtape, is out July 17 through Moshi Moshi and Cooperative Music. Recorded in Mwamwaya's hometown of Lilongwe, Malawi, it features collab-happy Malian duo Amadou and Mariam, Baaba Maal, K'naan, and others.

The Senegalese music star visits the Bush House studios and answers questions sent in by BBC Africa's social media followers.

Womad returns to New Plymouth next weekend with a line-up strong on the big names of Afro-music. Scott Kara talks to Baaba Maal as he heads to Taranaki.

[Oxfam] During a 48 hour visit to the Gorgol region of Mauritania, the musician Baaba Maal discovered the harsh reality for communities affected by a food crisis that now touches one in four people across the country. Today 700,000 people are food insecure in Mauritania.

WEST African superstar Baaba Maal will return to Adelaide to complete the massive line-up set down for Womadelaide's 20th anniversary event.

With malaria claiming the lives of 3,000 African children a day, three of Africa's most celebrated music stars - Youssou N'Dour and Baaba Maal of Senegal and Khaled of Algeria - will be among those performing this weekend at a concert partly sponsored by United Nations agencies to raise funds for the elimination of the disease.

When vibraphone player Greg Harris took his New World Citizen Quartet out to play a couple of months ago, opening for Baaba Maal at the L2 Arts and Culture Center in Denver, he positioned himself behind a Gyil , a 14-key xylophone indigenous to the African nations of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. For an experienced and fluid vibraphone ... (more)

When vibraphone player Greg Harris took his New World Citizen Quartet out to play a couple of months ago, opening for Baaba Maal at the L2 Arts and Culture Center in Denver, he positioned himself behind a Gyil , a 14-key xylophone indigenous to the African nations of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. For an experienced and fluid vibraphone ... (more)

When the Voices of Freedom ring out on Saturday at Pigeon Point Heritage Park, one voice will ring brightly among them, steeped in the rich history of African heritage.

When the Voices of Freedom ring out on Saturday at Pigeon Point Heritage Park, one voice will ring brightly among them, steeped in the rich history of African heritage.

One of the finest and most distinctive voices to come out of Africa heads to New Zealand in March for WOMAD New Zealand 2012 - Senegalese singer Baaba Maal.

London's Southbank Centre is to stage an international festival including singers Bryn Terfel and Baaba Maal, as part of the capital's 2012 games.

US pop group The Scissor Sisters and Senegalese singer Baaba Maal are to take part in a music festival in London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics.