Guinean singer SEKOUBA BAMBINO, as Sekouba Bambino Diabate is now known, was born into music - his father and mother were outstanding singers, but his father, who had become the CEO of a transport ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In his youth a stalwart of Guinea’s celebrated group Bembeya Jazz, Sékouba Diabaté (Bambino is a stage ...

Sekouba Bambino Diabate, a prominent musician from Guinea Conakry has sent a condolence message to President Jammeh on the demise of the former director general of the Gambia Radio and Television ...

It was literally poetic justice when West African music legend Sekouba Bambino escaped the Radisson Blu in Mali and gave the police key intel on the religious extremists who attacked the hotel, took ...

At least three people have been killed by armed jihadists 'speaking English' after they stormed a luxury hotel in Mali, it is reported. At least 170 people were taken hostage, with 138 still being ...

Luanda — The Alliance Française in Luanda organises on 6-8 April, in this city, concerts with the musician Sékouba Bambino, one of the best voices from Guninea-Conacry and west Africa. According to a ...

Sekouba Bambino Diabate and his formidable voice celebrate his 15th year as a solo artist on his CD 15e Anniversaire. Both of Sekouba’s parents were griots - hereditary musicians - in Guinea, although ...

Sekouba 'Bambino' Diabate, from Guinea, arrived at the hotel in Bamako at 2am today with his musicians ahead of a concert tomorrow night. He told Le Monde Afrique: "From my room on the fourth floor I ...

Gun-toting jihadists took more than 100 people hostage for around nine hours at a top hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda affiliate that left at least 27 ...