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Friday 6 April 2012

Africa's Music Icon Youssou N'dour Appointed Senegal's Culture Minister

    World music icon Youssou Ndour has been named the new senegals 's
minister for culture and tourism.
    The announcement was made on wednesday by the new elected
President Macky Sall,two days after his inauguration ceremony.Ndour
had earlier organized a big concert for sall on monday night to
celebrate the new era in senegal .
    Senegal's new president won a runoff election by a large margin,
defeating  former leader Abdoulaye Wade.
   Earlier this year, the grammy award winning singer Ndour himself
launched a failed bid for the presidency  but was disqualified and
later threw his support behind Sall.

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