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Oumou Sangare: "Moussolou"

The potent debut from Ivory Coast singer Oumou Sangare came out when she was just 21 years old. She criticized women’s general subservience to men, and promptly sold a reported 200,000-plus copies of the cassette across West Africa. 

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