• 1.1. fils du sahel
  • 1.2. boy cuisinier
  • 1.3. mariétou
  • 1.4. je suis un salaud
  • 1.5. ouaga affaires
  • 1.6. mam ti fou
  • 1.7. lucie
  • 1.8. missé issa
  • 1.9. je demande ma démission
  • 1.10. tond yabramba
  • 1.11. yamb ney capitale

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le troubadour de la savane - 1978/1982

LE TROUBADOUR DE LA SAVANE - 1978/1982

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LE TROUBADOUR DE LA SAVANE - 1978/1982

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For many decades until quite recently, little was known about music from Burkina Faso (which was formerly known as the Upper Volta). It is still one of the lesser known forms of popular music from West Africa. A few years before the country changed its name to Burkina Faso, thanks to Thomas Sankara's dream of a new society, Voltaic music emerged as some kind of true cultural revolution in the wake of the country's independence in 1960. Remote, poor and isolated, Upper Volta musicians coveted the orchestras and artists from abroad while creating a music of their own, based on rich cultural traditions. Popular music that sprung up from Burkina Faso owed much to the music from neighboring countries like Mali, Ghana, Ivory Coast or Benin, and to the ... read more