BOMBINO

Home. Where the heart is. For Bombino and most other Tuareg , there’s only one place that can be. In recent years, the rest of the world has largely written off that home as a hot and savage wasteland, a bolt hole for religious extremists and terrorists, a geopolitical video nasty with little to offer apart from the oil, gold and phosphates that lie beneath its soil. But Bombino would like us to take a closer look and think again. His feelings are bea utifully summed up in the song “Tehigren” (‘Trees’), from his brand new album ‘ Deran ’ : ‘Do not forget the green trees / In our valleys in the Sahara / In the shade of which, / Rest the beautiful girls / Radiant and lovable’ .