'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a spontaneous journey through a stretch of sea, cutting across the isthmuses of some discographies (Mama Africa 35, 31) 'Balkan music has annoyed us, it's beautiful and all that, but in the long run...'. Instead, African music has never done that. Never. For a brief backward excursion into the Black Continent, at the foot of the exceptional musics to which everyone owes their due respect, if not devotion. Because, whether we like it or not, we are, for the most part if not entirely, its children. 28. Djelimady Tounkara Djelimady Tounkara - Mandé djeliou