
Baaba Maal: Can the Sahel overcome its challenges?
The Interview
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The Impact of Social Media on African Culture
Do you think being very successful and collaborating with famous people in the western music world makes it more difficult to remain rooted? Yeah it can make it very much difficult but you have to convince also these people just to not you coming to them or going to them. For example I did convince Mumford and Sons that to come to see my festival, the Blues of the River. They were thrilled about old elements that can't even help them to have new inspiration. In this part of Africa the music have still a lot of things to share with all these people who's trying to find new elements.
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