{"id":79049,"date":"2019-02-06T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/06\/salif-keita-democracy-is-a-not-a-good-thing-for-africa\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:00:40","slug":"salif-keita-democracy-is-a-not-a-good-thing-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=79049","title":{"rendered":"Salif Keita: \u2018Democracy is a not a good thing for Africa\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018golden voice of Africa\u2019 has just released his final album. And though he is visibly tired, he is still in love with his guitarSalif Keita, Mali\u2019s most famous musical son, is going home. \u201cI\u2019m returning to the land,\u201d he says. \u201cI was a farmer\u2019s son. I am a farmer\u2019s son. Now, I will go back to the country and cultivate.\u201d Cultivate what? I ask, not for the first time. Keita does not answer, not for the first time. He closes his eyes and falls silent. When he does speak, it is bursts of a few words and short, stilted answers.I am in a modest hotel suite in the north of Paris with one of the greatest musical talents the African continent has ever produced. Keita, known as the \u201cgolden voice of Africa\u201d, has enjoyed a career spanning more than half a century. Now nearly 70 years old, he is known not just for his extraordinarily powerful and passionate voice, but for the genetic condition he has called albinism that has made him, he says, \u201cwhite of skin and black of blood\u201d. He has sung for Nelson Mandela, and in aid of Ethiopia. He continues to sing to highlight the desperate plight of those with albinism across Africa, giving his time and talent to raise funds. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/feb\/06\/salif-keita-interview-democracy-is-a-not-a-good-thing-for-africa\" target=\"_blank\">Salif Keita: \u2018Democracy is a not a good thing for Africa\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018golden voice of Africa\u2019 has just released his final album. And though he is visibly tired, he is still in love with his guitarSalif Keita, Mali\u2019s most famous musical son, is going home. \u201cI\u2019m returning to the land,\u201d he says. \u201cI was a farmer\u2019s son. I am a farmer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}