Rockers of Africa. This is how journalist Hélène Lee entitled her 1988 book on the first singers of African music in the globalized world, at a time when the term “world music” had just been coined to promote this new business. And this, even though Salif Keïta and Alpha Blondy, to name just two of the artists featured in the book, were not, strictly speaking, rock musicians. But at the same time, rock had already invaded the continent in a big way, from the Malian Boubacar Traoré, converted to Eddie…
