When Fadimata Walet Oumar sang and danced around the fires at home each night, little did she know she would become a woman who would go down in history as one of the saviours of the tunes of the Sahara.
One day in August 1995 a man called Foutanga Babani Sissoko walked into the head office of the Dubai Islamic Bank and asked for a loan to buy a car. The manager agreed, and Sissoko invited him home for dinner. It was the prelude, writes…
