All aboard the Africa Express!

A collaboration of African and western musicians, Africa Express is now headlining festivals and planning a huge train tour of the UK this year. Damon Albarn and Baaba Maal talk to Caspar Llewellyn Smith'It's always felt like a journey on an African train," says Baaba Maal of his involvement with the organisation known as Africa Express. "You set off without any sense of expectation whatsoever," he continues, speaking down a crackly line en route to a gig of his own in Mauritania, "but along th...

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