I am the songbird – in my culture the songbird is the singer – I am talking to my public, asking them to remember the poor, those who have no power, no voice, no hope. Often it’s the orphans or those who lose their parents early who have the greatest problems in life…The worried songbird cries out in the forest, her thoughts go far away.
— Oumou Sangaré, Grammy-award winning singer from Mali
