Amadou and Mariam: 'When you live in this world you have to make yourself useful'

Caspar Llewellyn Smith meets Mali's blind musicians Amadou and Mariam at their home in BamakoSunday in Bamako, and it's hot and dusty outside on the street, but inside in Amadou and Mariam's sitting room everything is altogether more subdued, with the lighting turned low. There's a huge flatscreen TV, a sizable sound system, and gold discs commemorating sales of their records worldwide, trophies in the two corner cabinets, and photos marking their progress around the globe, even a picture of the...

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