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Ali Farka Touré: Barbican, London — Niger river delta blues

Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 14 March 2000

IT HAS become increasingly difficult to prise Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré away from the rural life in his home village of Niafunke.

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