After years of her music being banned by Mauritania’s military government, Malouma now speaks through her new role as one of the country’s 56 senators and through her new CD, Nour, which brings the ...

Malouma, one of Mauritania's most famous "griot" traditional singers, was elected to the national Senate this year as an opposition member. She is bringing her fight against social injustice from the ...

Dressed in the colourful muslin veil that brightens up the harsh sandy streets of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, Malouma holds her traditional ardin, or harp, in one hand as she speaks rapid-fire ...

DAMASCUS: Mauritanian vocalist, composer and instrumentalist, Malouma Bint al-Meedah, performed her first Syrian concert on Saturday evening. After enduring a decade-long performance ban in her own ...

Malouma is one of the great singers of North Africa. With her last album, Dunya, she established her reputation as one of the finest exponents of the desert blues, and she has bravely established her ...

Radio M host Tony Sarabia joins Jerome for another edition of Global Notes, Worldview’s weekly look at what’s happening in the world of music. This week, they discuss Mauritania’s biggest musical ...

Malouma Messoud was born a slave. She belonged to a religious leader and believed that if she did not obey her master she would not go to paradise. Although slavery was banned in Mauritania in 1981, ...