I received the new Songlines today and on reading the letters was surprised to see that one Stephen Davies informed us that Sali sidibé, a prominent Wassoulou singer, had died in February 2019 aged 59. There seems to have been no mention of her passing anywhere in the British music press. I don't think that many of her recordings were issued outside Mali, but I do have a cassette of her, which I must have bought in the late 1990s. I no longer have a cassette deck so cannot play the music now.
RIP Sali
RIP Sali