The story of Mdou Moctar’s early years reads like show business boilerplate. Growing up in a conservative rural town in central Niger, he had neither the money nor parental permission to buy a guitar, so he scavenged items such as bits of wood and bicycle brake cables until he had enough parts to build his own.…
The story of Mdou Moctar’s early years reads like show business boilerplate. Growing up in a conservative rural town in central Niger, he had neither the money nor parental permission to buy a guitar, so he scavenged items such as bits of wood and bicycle brake cables until he had enough parts to build his own.…