{"id":13549,"date":"2020-12-07T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/?post_type=focus&#038;p=13549"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:05:32","slug":"mogoya-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"focus","link":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogoya (episode 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read episode 1.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its strength is that when you have a problem, the whole family is with you. We sleep together, eat together, talk together. But it also has its hypocritical side. People are vulnerable, there are no jobs, nothing to do, so the only occupation they can find to distract themselves is to hurt each other, to hate each other, to find something with which to destroy the&nbsp;other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ami Yerewolo - <em>Lyamba<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Ami Yerewolo Iyamba clip officiel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z05sBODkXYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Behind the decade of turmoil that Malians have suffered and the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat that ousted Karim Keita\u2019s father, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18<sup>th<\/sup>, is a deep sense that something essential to the Malian character is being destroyed by greed, corruption and the dazzle of money. \u201cIf there are all these problems today,\u201d says Aliou Toure, lead singer of Songhoy Blues, \u201cit\u2019s because mogoya has disappeared and the love of power has eclipsed the power of love. There was a time when we were really happy here in Mali with the little we had, because we were at peace, we were safe and life was beautiful. People are beginning to realize their mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Songhoy Blues - <em>Worry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Songhoy Blues - Worry (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEkGB6u3sYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bourama Soumano, hereditary chief of the griots of Bamako, blames this fall from grace on the fact that no one listens to the griots anymore. \u201cThe griot\u2019s role in the transmission of mogoya from one generation to another is indispensable,\u201d he says. \u201cMalian society has understood that it was wrong to want to delegate that role to modern communicators such as journalists, <span class=\"caps\">TV<\/span> presenters, people on the internet. The griots haven\u2019t taught the new generation what it should have taught them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another griot, famous on the international music scene, even went so far as to blame religion, by which he meant Islam, for the slow death of mogoya. \u201c<em>Silameya <\/em>(Islam-ness)<em>, <\/em>that\u2019s what\u2019s destroying everything,\u201d he says.<em> \u201c<\/em>Religion arrived here only to find that we already had mogoya. It was even more upstanding than their religion. Now they\u2019ve built lots of mosques, but there\u2019s no more mogoya. We were happy before religion. We were doing&nbsp;fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demise of mogoya, a \u2018human-centred\u2019 philosophy, has been at the heart of Mali\u2019s internal moral debate for decades. Now that debate is increasingly couched in Islamic, \u2018God-centered\u2019 terms. The immense popularity of charismatic imams such as Mahmoud Dicko, de-facto leader of the opposition <span class=\"caps\">M5<\/span> movement, suggests that Malians are seeking a sanctified and righteous antidote to the moral bankruptcy of the current political class. But what form should righteousness take?&nbsp; Stronger religious devotion? Or more mogoya? Or&nbsp;both?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, in an age of capitalism and consumerism, mogoya is an impossible dream. Perhaps it only ever existed when everyone - kings, nobles, warriors, merchants, griots, craftsmen, slaves - knew their place, and when women stayed at home to educate their children 24\/7 (as was asserted by a griot during one of my interviews). Perhaps, as Ivorian writer Amadou Kon\u00e9 suggests, it\u2019s time for a new mogoya, one embodied in a few enlightened individuals like N\u2019Douba, hero of Kon\u00e9\u2019s novel <em>Les Respects des Morts <\/em>(1992) who declares: \u2018The black man of tomorrow is made not by he who adheres desperately to the past, nor by he that Europe has lead astray by dazzling him, but simply by the one who is sufficiently lucid to advance towards Europe whilst remaining himself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Oumou Sangare thinks that Africa can save its mogoya by emulating Japan. \u201cJapan is the most modern country in the world, agreed? Japan is also the most traditional country in the world, agreed? Africa can evolve, whilst preserving certain traditions that are worth preserving. I really want Africa to become like that. And it\u2019s doable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its strength is that when you have a problem, the whole family is with you. We sleep together, eat together, talk together. But it also has its hypocritical side. People are vulnerable,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":13411,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13549","focus","type-focus","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mogoya (episode 2) - #AuxSons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mogoya (episode 2) - #AuxSons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"#AuxSons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/auxsons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-07T11:05:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"801\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@auxsons\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/\",\"name\":\"Mogoya (episode 2) - #AuxSons\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-07T07:53:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-07T11:05:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":801,\"caption\":\"Aliou Toure, lead singer of Songhoy Blues: \u201cMogoya has disappeared and the love of power has eclipsed the power of love\u201d \u00a9 Andy Morgan\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/mogoya-episode-2\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Focus\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/focus\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Mogoya (episode 2)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"#AuxSons\",\"description\":\"Musiques &amp; Vibrations du Monde\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"#AuxSons\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/logo-aux-sons@2x.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/logo-aux-sons@2x.png\",\"width\":320,\"height\":192,\"caption\":\"#AuxSons\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.auxsons.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/auxsons\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/auxsons\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/auxsons\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UC_NjOjgZNHW-6MaXKWavFKQ\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mogoya (episode 2) - #AuxSons","description":"Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mogoya (episode 2) - #AuxSons","og_description":"Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its","og_url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/","og_site_name":"#AuxSons","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/auxsons\/","article_modified_time":"2020-12-07T11:05:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":801,"url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@auxsons","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/","url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/","name":"Mogoya (episode 2) - #AuxSons","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg","datePublished":"2020-12-07T07:53:35+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-07T11:05:32+00:00","description":"Read episode 1. Rapper Ami Yerewolo, a paradigm of outspokenness, agrees: \u201cLike everything in a society, mogoya has its strengths and its weaknesses. Its","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/songhoybluesatmorgan-12.jpg","width":1200,"height":801,"caption":"Aliou Toure, lead singer of Songhoy Blues: \u201cMogoya has disappeared and the love of power has eclipsed the power of love\u201d \u00a9 Andy Morgan"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya-episode-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Accueil","item":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Focus","item":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Mogoya (episode 2)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/","name":"#AuxSons","description":"Musiques &amp; Vibrations du Monde","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/#organization","name":"#AuxSons","url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/logo-aux-sons@2x.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/logo-aux-sons@2x.png","width":320,"height":192,"caption":"#AuxSons"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/auxsons\/","https:\/\/x.com\/auxsons","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/auxsons\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_NjOjgZNHW-6MaXKWavFKQ"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus\/13549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/focus"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus\/13549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}