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The Malian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara feels at home anywhere. Whether in West Africa, where she’s from; in Paris, where she made a name for herself as a theater and film actor ...

Fatoumata Diawara was a featured performer at the Journey into Afrofuturism Festival, organized by Carnegie Hall on Friday, March 4. It is a (NY) city-wide festival "where music, visual arts, science ...

A buzz was in the air among those assembled at San Francisco's Nourse Theater for the first night of Mali Fest, a set of two concerts which featured two distinct acts. This initial evening headlined ...

Somerset House Summer Series with American Express is thrilled to announce details of the final headline show at this year’s highly anticipated festival. ‘An Evening In Mali’, featuring Fatoumata ...

Escaping tragedy in her home country and beyond, Malian superstar Fatoumata Diawara has found respite reimagining her proud musical heritage in dynamic new ways. But with a new album, this inventive ...

It’s been a while since Fatoumata Diawara has done any significant work as an actress, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped asking her about it. “People don’t often know much about what I did as ...

Désolé - the second episode of Song Machine - features multiple Grammy Award nominee and Malian superstar Fatoumata Diawara and sees our intrepid heroes teleport themselves via a Kong Studios portal ...

After the first of a number of slightly predictable but heartfelt intros, in which she promises to give us an Africa beyond the clichés of poverty and mass migration, Fatoumata launches into the first ...

Editor’s Note: African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Follow the ...

Swaddled in a tendril of vivid scarves, like fireworks about her face, Fatoumata Diawara nurses an espresso in a corner banquette, all infectious triumph. Outside this cozy café near the Malian singer ...