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The Malian photographer, Malick Sidib\xe9, is one of Africa\u2019s most celebrated artists.

His most famous photographs show black and white scenes of young people partying in the capital Bamako in the joyful, confident era after Mali\u2019s independence from France in 1960.

In the 1990s, a chance encounter with a French curator brought Sidib\xe9\u2019s work international acclaim.

The wider world had been used to seeing a narrow range of images from Africa, so when Sidib\xe9\u2019s work went on show in Western galleries, audiences were stunned by the exuberant world they revealed.

In 2022, Manthia Diawara, the Malian filmmaker and professor at New York University, who knew Malick when he was a roving nightlife photographer spoke, to Viv Jones.

(Photo: Danser le Twist, 1963 by Malick Sidib\xe9. Credit: Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris)