Ahead of her appearance at the Africa Festival in Würzburg and the upcoming release of her next album, Love, Sweat and Tears, singer Mariama Jalloh talked to DW about music, motivation and the places she calls home.
“You can still find light traces of colonialism in the way the African continent and ‘African culture’ is viewed,” says Mariama Jalloh.
The singer-songwriter, who was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in Germany, laments people’s tendency to lump the cultures of so many African countries together.
“It’s an unbelievably big continent,” she adds. “Even in a small land like Sierra Leone, so many different cultures come together.”
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