A post by Mirissa Neff in The World:
Azawad in north Mali is the area that produced the desert swept blues of the band Tinariwen and the late Ali Farka Toure...The latest iteration is a Tuareg band called Terakaft. The name means caravan in Tamasheq. The leader, Diara, was a founding member of Tinariwen. He left to join Terakaft. And today the group is a full-on family affair, fronted by Diara and two of his nephews, Sanou and Abdallah Ag Ahmed...[more here]