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African blues
Since getting back from my break, I've been catching up on new albums. "Tchamantché", the latest release from the charismatic Malian singer Rokia Traoré - a protégé of the late Ali Farka Touré - already seems to be causing a stir. "Dounia" is the opening track:
"Each dawn announces
a new day
The moon shines down
on different nights
Beyond the hours flowing inexorably by
No-one can see, even from the
highest point of existence,
What tomorrow will be
Days that are honey-sweet?
Days that taste of gall...?"
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