Cheikh Lô: Senegal's Sufi guitarist gets nostalgic

With his love-it-or-hate-it guitar style, soaring voice and Sufi spiritualism, Senegalese star Cheikh Lô has always been a one-off, a product of West Africa's musical crossroadsCheikh Lô is sitting in the driver's seat of an old Mercedes, the chair flung far back, the smoke curling from a spliff up and out of the cracks at the top of the darkened windows. A string of Islamic prayer beads dangles from a rearview mirror mounted on the dashboard, mirror and a bunch of leather-bound religious tali...

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