Fatoumata Diawara: 'Singing is a medicine'

She might work with Flea and Damon Albarn, but Fatoumata Diawara is still singing to her countrywomen in MaliIt would be easy for someone as in demand as Fatoumata Diawara to forget exactly who she is at times. The 30-year-old singer, who now lives in Paris, was only discovered by British audiences last year, thanks to a string of festival appearances and the release on World Circuit records (home to the likes of the Buena Vista Social Club and the late Ali Farka Touré) of her spellbinding albu...

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