Hamadoun Tandina is a Malian storyteller and poet born in 1943 in Goundam, northern Mali. First a shepherd, then a primary school teacher, he turned to writing and the stage in 1975, with tales and poems set to the calabash or the tom-tom.
He worked with Ali Farka Touré and narrated Eclipse, Amadou & Mariam’s show created at the Manchester International Festival.
He was on the bill of the festival’s 4th edition, in 2002.
