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Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime 12/16/16 existing at the crossroads whereOn May 21, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long awaited new album by Mdou Moctar. On Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and rock music by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights inequality, and Western Africas exploitation at the hands of colonial