It was almost inevitable that Baaba Maal would one day call an album The Traveller because for the Senegalese veteran travel and music are inextricable. The singer and guitarist belongs to the ...

The top film at the box office this first weekend of December was not, as you might expect, a holiday film, but the second installment of the Black Panther franchise, "Wakanda Forever." It's earned ...

One of Africa’s most beloved and critically acclaimed musicians, Baaba Maal, invites Uncut to a rare audience in his hometown, Podor. His rich, golden voice and music that hovers deftly between ...

Grammy Award winning Senegalese singer Baaba Maal has today been appointed by the United Nations as a Goodwill Ambassador, an honorary spokesperson representing the UN's interests, raising awareness, ...

Baaba Maal has a bed big enough to sleep six people in either direction. We’re at his house in Podor, his hometown at the northernmost point of Senegal, and he’s giving me the tour. If they made MTV ...

It's been three years since Senegalese singer Baaba Maal released a new record (Missing You, Palm Pictures 2001), but in that time he's lost none of his spark. If anything, Maal seems to acquire ...

Almost 20 years ago, veteran British music journalist Chris Salewicz arrived in Paris to cover a rising Senegalese singer whose torrid concerts were setting the world music scene abuzz. At the time ...

When Baaba Maal comes to the Fillmore on Saturday, August 11, Bay Area audiences will get to hear a voice that is one of the wonders of the modern world: His expansive, slightly nasal tenor slides ...

Baaba Maal is back in Britain next week. If he isn't yet as familiar a name here as his fellow Senegalese Youssou N'Dour, this is because of a sea-change he's helped to inspire. N'Dour cemented his ...

I might be dreaming this, but I was at an awards ceremony recently, the Gold Badge Awards, handed out by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for service to the music industry ...