Doumbia Moussa Fakoly (born June 23, 1968 in Odienné), better known by his stage name Tiken Jah Fakoly, is an Ivorian reggae singer and songwriter. Doumbia Moussa Fakoly was born on 23 June 1968 in ...

A non-Rastafarian reggae musician who grew up a practicing Muslim, Tiken Jah Fakoly is a native of Africa’s Ivory Coast who draws most of his material and inspiration from his home continent. His ...

Ivory Coast's descent into hell follows the tragic post-colonial template of African politics. An old-school political patriarch, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, ruled with an iron fist for 33 years after ...

Former SSK rapper Lëk Sèn puts his raw, husky voice to work on his first solo album, trying everything from the reggae-influenced ‘Frica Sound’ to the desert guitar of ‘Rebel Blues’. Listen out for ...

Ivorian exile reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly shares the mic with Jamaican vocalist Ken Booth in this cover of Is It Because I'm Black on his album Racines. Kora and ngoni trade licks before the ...

As a child in rural northern Côte d’Ivoire, Tiken Jah Fakoly whiled away the hours listening to his brother’s reggae records. Racines repays his debt to Jamaica, covering eleven classics from Kingston ...

This is a guest post by Tiken Jah Fakoly, musician, activist and supporter of ONE’s pan-African campaign ‘Do Agric’. I am a reggae man, music is my profession. But when I am not singing, I want to put ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ivorian reggae singer Tiken Jah Fakoly performs during the Carthage International Festival at the Carthage Roman ruins in Tunis ...

(Updates with concert taking place, quote from fan paragraph 7) By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN, Dec 8 (Reuters) - African reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly on Saturday played his first concert in his native Ivory ...

Tiken Jah Fakoly is one of Africa's great singer-songwriters. He's massively popular in Mali, where he lives after moving from the Ivory Coast, and in France, and he has helped to revive the African ...

“It was a scary time,” says Ivory Coast’s roots-reggae superstar Tiken Jah Fakoly about the devastating civil war that brought his home country to its knees. Things came to a head last March when ...

"Coupe de Gueule!", the latest album from Ivorian reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly is the work of an angry man. He is angry at the the state of his homeland, Ivory Coast; angry at the incumbent African ...