Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Viv Jones. Today I'm taking you back to the swinging 60s and 70s, not to London, Paris or New York, but

to Mali.

The West African nation had just gained its independence from France, and

youth in the capital of Amoco were enjoying new freedoms, partying all night to a soundtrack

of soul, rock and roll, and Marlion Pop. This confident era was captured by

photographer Malik Sadibe. Decades later, his electrifying black and white party

photos would reveal an unseen Africa to the wider world

and establish him as one of the continent's most celebrated artists.

In every photograph if you listen carefully you can hear the music you can see the movement

that the person is doing the Bugaloo the funky chicken or the jerk, the mass potato.

He really captured the rhythm.

Siddebe died in 2016.

I've been talking to someone who knew him, Marlian filmmaker an academic, Mancha Jawara.

What was he like as a person?

He was considered a decent man, always laughing, even when he's not laughing, the way his teeth are out, he thinks Maliki is laughing.

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