'Remembering Ali'- Favorite Video#1-Ali Farka Toure (October 31, 1939 -- March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians who cared very deeply about fighting poverty and the plight of his fellow countryman, unfortunately because he had no other choice in this matter. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues. He was born in 1939 in the village of Kanau, on the banks of the Niger River in the northwestern Malian region of Tombouctou. His family moved to the nearby village of Niafunké when he was still an infant. He was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy. "The name I was given was Ali Ibrahim, but it's a custom in Africa to give a child a strange nickname if you have had other children who have died", Touré was quoted as saying in a biography on his Record Label, World Circuit Records. His nickname, "Farka", chosen by his parents, means "donkey", an animal admired for its tenacity and stubbornness: "Let me make one thing clear. I'm the donkey that nobody humps on!" -Wikipedia.

Favorite Video#2-"Diaraby"-So what did Ali look and act like? Here he is in a video from 1994 playing his most popular riff line. Firm, proud and very resolute in his appearance and totally committed to his ideals and goals and going forward with them.

"In 2004 Touré became mayor of Niafunké and spent his own money grading the roads, putting in sewer canals and fueling a generator that provided the impoverished town with electricity. -Wikipedia.
I can even imagine this guy going so far as to operate the bulldozer or backhoe, doing whatever it took to get this project done as quickly as possible to improve the quality of life in his village.
Favorite Video# 3-Ali's friend, bandmate and fellow countryman, Toumani Diabate, lead kora, riffs like crazy in this song, along with his fellow musician, Ballake Sissoko on rythm kora, the song here is called 'Bi Lambam'. The kora is the ancient African harp/lute which I guess sounds most like the folk instument, the hammered dulcimer from our country, but looks and is played very differently. Also listen for the bass in this song, understated but equally brilliant in it's beauty here. Ali passed away in 2006 after a long battle with bone cancer. This type of cancer is unfortunately very difficult, it brings you down slowly but steadily and most unfortunately often with a great deal of pain. t really makes me wonder, after all the suffering he went through in his early life and all the good he accomplished later on, why he had to get this and once again be subjected to so much more suffering. I only wish I knew the answer to that one because I really want to know it!
Favorite Video# 4-Cat Stevens "On the Road To Find Out"

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