One of the greatest African musicians passed away last Thursday, at around 03:00 am in a private clinic in Dakar. Laba Sosseh, a Gambian musician, will certainly be remembered as the most ...

As a teenager in Senegal, Amadou Koly Niang fell in love with jazz. Over 40 years later, he's started a jazz festival to bring the music to his countrymen — with a Senegalese twist, of course.