Mali: Nick Gold On Ali Farka Toure’s Posthumous Release, Voyageur

[Afropop] When I reached Nick Gold, the creator of World Circuit records, by Zoom in London, he had recently returned from a trip to Mali and Senegal, his first visit there in years. He started out in Wassoulou country, in the town of Yanfolila, where Oumou Sangare has been producing an annual festival of Wassoulou music for the past five years. It’s a three-day, free festival on a huge open-air stage just outside of town. As Oumou told us last fall, she has constructed a hotel and bungalows for VIPs, so it’s a comf