Rokia Traore's career belies the notion that you can't go home again. The 30-year-old singer was born in Mali but spent most of her formative years in Europe with her diplomatically connected family - ...

Rokia Traoré presents an entirely different role model for an African female singer. She reflects on her Malian tradition and sings exclusively in her native language, Bamanan, which she chose because ...

Rokia Traoré: world music is 'too many things in a small place' She came to music via an unconventional route, following her family around the world and back, from Brussels to Israel, Algeria to Saudi ...

Rokia Traoré has gone back to school. She is taking social sciences and anthropology, has considered journalism and thought about training as a translator. In the meantime, she has made a new album, ...

Most of the Malian music we get to hear in this country bears Western trappings–the drum machines in Issa Bagayogo’s songs, for example, or the funk bass that undergirds Oumou Sangare’s circular ...

It has been four years since the superb Malian singer and guitarist Rokia Traoré last released an album (2008’s mesmerising Tchamantche) but, right from the outset in our discussion, it transpires ...

Rokia Traoré is a Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She made six albums between 1998 and 2016. Bowmboï (2003) won the Critics Award category at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in 2004 ...