On her upcoming album “Kawan,” Nahawa Doumbia urges her fans, “don’t go.” In a country that loses hundreds of young men and women to war, poverty and emigration, Doumbia wants to find solutions that will keep them at home. Better job opportunities she says is one way. Host Marco Werman plays a track from “Kawan.”
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