Guinean singer SEKOUBA BAMBINO, as Sekouba Bambino Diabate is now known, was born into music - his father and mother were outstanding singers, but his father, who had become the CEO of a transport ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In his youth a stalwart of Guinea’s celebrated group Bembeya Jazz, Sékouba Diabaté (Bambino is a stage ...

Luanda — The Alliance Française in Luanda organises on 6-8 April, in this city, concerts with the musician Sékouba Bambino, one of the best voices from Guninea-Conacry and west Africa. According to a ...

It was literally poetic justice when West African music legend Sekouba Bambino escaped the Radisson Blu in Mali and gave the police key intel on the religious extremists who attacked the hotel, took ...

Sekouba Bambino Diabate, a prominent musician from Guinea Conakry has sent a condolence message to President Jammeh on the demise of the former director general of the Gambia Radio and Television ...

When the cream of West Africa's griots - ancestral singers - gathered in Mali to record an album, Mark Hudson was there to witness a remarkable musical coming together The woman on the sofa next to me ...

"I heard them say in English 'Did you load it?', 'Let's go'," singer Sékouba 'Bambino' Diabate "I heard them say in English 'Did you load it?', 'Let's go'," singer Sékouba 'Bambino' Diabate, who was ...

At least three people have been killed by armed jihadists 'speaking English' after they stormed a luxury hotel in Mali, it is reported. At least 170 people were taken hostage, with 138 still being ...

World Diabetes Day: Ghana's Diabetes Association says the country is unequipped for the disease +++ South Africa wraps up inquiry into Marikana killings +++ Sékouba Bambino Diabaté joins Ebola fight ...

Popular Guinean singer Sekouba "Bambino" Diabate, who was a guest at the hotel, told Le Monde that he heard two of the attackers speaking in English “with a Nigerian accent”. The gunmen who carried ...