Musician Sidi Toure of Mali is interviewed at the Barbican Hall before the Sahara Soul concert in London...
Musician Sidi Toure of Mali is interviewed at the Barbican Hall before the Sahara Soul concert in London January 26, 2012. Mali's musical community, whose singers and players have won worldwide acclaim, has been targeted by hardline Islamists bent on imposing sharia, or Islamic law. Concerts have been banned in northern cities, clubs closed, instruments smashed and burned, musicians harassed and forced to flee. Picture taken January 26, 2013. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)