Mdou Moctar

As the Niger guitarist releases a bristling new collection of protest songs, he tells Guitarist about injustice, the fire in his fingers, and why he comes alive on the stage

Words Henry Yates
MDOU MOCTAR


Back in the 60s, the template for a protest singer was set as an earnest fingerstyle folkie, regaling a cross-legged audience in a Greenwich Village coffee house. 5,000 miles away, and a half-century later, Mdou Moctar didn’t get the memo (in fact, as...

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