#3451: Music from Sub-Saharan Africa

Listen to music from Niger, Mali, Senegal and Uganda on this New Sounds program.  Hear selections from “Delicious Peace,” a new collection of songs by the Peace Kawomera (“Delicious Peace”) interfaith fair trade coffee farmers from Uganda.  The songs, each sung in the regional language, are about the economic benefits of growing coffee, to the importance of peace among different regions, encouraging neighbors to join the cooperative and teaching methods for producing higher quality coffee. Rather than being harvest songs, these are performed at community gatherings, at meetings of the cooperative, and at wedding receptions of members.  

Also, listen to Bombino, the Tuareg singer/guitarist from Niger who made his most recent record, “Nomad” here in the U.S. with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.  There’s also music from the Senegalese guitarist Daby Balde, along with something from the master Zulu guitarist Shiyani Ngcobo.  Plus more music from Senegal from the blind singer/guitarist Mansour Seck, along with music from Mali’s Vieux Farka Toure, son of the great Ali Farka Toure.  And more.

PROGRAM #3451, Music from Sub-Saharan Africa  (First aired on 4/5/2013)