Nahawa Doumbia
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She’s the king of Wassoulou, the pentatonic sound which is named after a valley in the south of Mali. Wassoulou, that’s music of women about women – feminism is a matter just as social equality and the abolition of polygamy: Things that are important to Nahawa Doumbia. She has never been adaptive, otherwise she probably would never have started singing: As foretold by her mother, who died shortly after Nahawa’s birth, the girl became a singer despite the resistance of her family. Her youthful and piercing voice has put a spell on people not only in all of Africa but also Europe.
