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Video: Music in Mali

The documentary "They Will Have To Kill Us First" focuses on the censorship of music in Mali and how musicians are reacting.
Video: Music in Mali
Brian Pellot

The documentary “They Will Have To Kill Us First” focuses on the censorship of music in Mali and how musicians are reacting.

“Documentary filmmaker Johanna Schwartz wrote for Index on Censorship magazine on the censorship and persecution that musicians in Mali have faced from Islamists, with musician Fadiamata Walet Oumar. In the article they highlighted how music was being driven out of the country, with even those with musical ringtones on their mobile phones facing crackdowns. Many musicians fled Mali during the worst excesses of persecution, as the article charts. Schwartz is an award-winning documentary maker, and she is giving Index readers an exclusive preview of her documentary They Will Have To Kill Us First.”

Video courtesy Index on Censorship via YouTube


http://youtu.be/UaIbhQVz6KQ

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