Jazz
March, 1997
In France, where African émigrés energize the most enthusiastic and affluent Afro-pop audience in the world, the voice of 28-year-old Oumou Sangare, from Mali, has been a sensation for most of this decade. And in her homeland, this impassioned opponent of polygamy and arranged marriage is so popular that politicians pay lip service to her feminist ideas. Onstage, Sangare is simultaneously regal and outgoing, sexy and sisterly, traditional and emancipated. On record, she's easier to understand on...
