the Mercury

Malian musician Jah Youssouf plays a West African kame ngoni, a six-stringed harp, in a room filled with other instruments at the Guelf home of Lewis Melville, a musician who met Youssouf on a trip in Africa three years ago.

St. Catharines Standard

“Youssouf, 31, is a prodigy of West African music and both a virtuoso and maker of native instruments from that part of the world.”

“ (Jah’s) songs and albums speak to his struggle out of poverty, the lives of everyday people, and his outrage at colonial exploitation and the manipulations of big money.”