We have it good here, in the West. We can safely make music and while the production tools costs are going down every day, we still can complain about bad sales and piracy and Spotify paying artists 0,002€ per song streamed. And we have shows like Pop Idol or The Voice mis-educating people about what's an artist and what it takes to become one...

While we're doing these things confortably (I mean, the more upset we are is when the broadband access is down, right ?) other artists and musicians are confronted to far worst situations. Take Tinariwen, the "african tuareg blues" band from Mali who just won a Grammy Award: they are as far from your basic top 40 music band as it can be....

The core members of Tinariwen actually met in 1982 and are quite the focus of attention on the Tuareg movement as this used-to-be-but-not-anymore forgotten (rather desertic) region of Africa is wanted by many people; multinational corporates (the region is rich in petrol and uranium), drug smugglers (very useful platform to Europe for the South American cocaine cartels), AQMI terrorists (the north african leg of Al Qaida) and diverse people, communities and countries wanting a piece...