Mali: Independence, the days after

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Mamadi Keita known as “Jacques”, locksmith in his “key-express” shop in the Bozola district.

He is one of the loyal members of the ORTM channel 2 listeners club.

Vladimir Cagnolari

By: Céline Develay Mazurelle

51 min

Part 1. In the time of Modibo.

On September 22, 2020, Mali will be sixty years old.

Of this long history, much less peaceful than the course of the Niger river which crosses the country, the national radio will have been the witness and the actor.

Linking people and the capital to distant villages, teaching them by proxy to know each other, the radio was both a tool for development and national cohesion.

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With Radio Mali agents of yesterday and today, but also their listeners, listen to the story of the early years of this country, which ended with a military coup.

The first in a long series ... Testimonies, report in Bamako, archives of Malian radio and music respond to each other and accompany us on a journey through time, which brings history and everyday life into dialogue, the great political figures and ordinary citizens. 

This two-part episode is part of the three-part series

, proposed by So far so close, imagined by Vladimir Cagnolari and directed by Laure Allary.

- Episode 1 on the Democratic Republic of Congo

- Episode 2 on Ivory Coast

Find out more:

- On the Office of Radio and Television of Mali

- On the break-up of the federation of Mali:

→ By Hampâté Ba, in the Palaver Tree.

January 2006

→ Through the Modibo Keita blog

- On Aissata Cissé, dean of the recently deceased radio station.

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