Twenty Years After His Disappearance, Tribute to Ali Farka Touré the Time of some Encounters

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Twenty years ago, on March 7, 2006, the Malian musician Ali Farka Touré disappeared. A great blues guitarist whose career has influenced his African, American and European contemporaries. Ali Farka Touré's blues was rooted in the soil of Sahelian music and the guitarist was an indefatigable explorer of the links between African-American blues and the traditional music of Mali. Olivier Rogez met Ali Farka Touré, two years before his death, in his…