Omar “Bombino” Moctar straddles two worlds. A Tuareg, the desert people of the Sahara, Bombino, as he is known, adheres to the centuries-old musical traditions of his people, weaving tales of struggle ...

Playing music is often more than just an act of art. Sometimes, it’s an act of resistance. For Bombino, one of the most famous and virtuosic guitarists hailing from the Sahara Desert, for a long time ...

Forged by the unforgiving Sahara Desert, over which they ruled for centuries as traders, the Tuareg have never shied away from a fight. In recent years, one of the most effective weapons in their ...

A small white car, branded with the words "Groupe Bambino" and a crudely drawn electric guitar, is revving its wheels deeper and deeper into the soft sand of a side alley somewhere on the ragged ...

Omara "Bombino" Moctar is out with his seventh album, Sahel, which is named after his homeland. On the project he pays tribute to his fellow Tuareg, who are indigenous to the eponymous African region ...

The meeting of western rock stars and non-western musicians is so fraught with potential pitfalls, it's a wonder any decent records ever come of it at all. Cross-pollination is hampered by gaps in ...

In a story too far-fetched for a Hollywood script, Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar survived life on the run as a desert fugitive, only to emerge four years later as a ...

I've been sitting with a CD for a couple of weeks now: listening to it, thinking about it, and sort of letting it percolate inside of me. It's not often I have the luxury of doing this with a ...