Ivory Coast isn't much better, CJB. My husband's a Muslim from there, and he tells me no-one is allowed to sing unless they're a 'griot', which (as I understand it) means a person whose family traditionally sings at weddings and celebrations, and has done so for centuries. Children can be smacked hard for breaking into song! Whatever drives these people to be so severe and condemnatory? Like Mali, Cote d'Ivoire has a rich musical tradition, and the Christians and animists from there (fortunately) keep all these skills alive. But what might happen if the Muslim fundamentalists take over...? Burkas all round and deathly silence? They already continue to perform the appalling genital mutilations on little girls (in spite of it being illegal) in the name of Islam. Ghastly.