This year's WOMEX FOCUS

is on Francophone Africa and offers you to discover a new generation: BALAKE SISSOKO from Mali, the musicians behind the Taj Mahal-Toumani Diabate project, TIHAREA, the a-capella girl group from Madagascar, SAWT EL ATLAS, Chaabi-Groovers from Maroc, SONIA M'BAREK, the sweetest voice of Maalouf from Tunesia and others from Burkina Faso, Cameroun, France, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

• article submitted by: Stephan Siedler, WOMEX