Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou has been played on NTS in shows including Discostan, featured first on 24 October 2019. Songs played include Souvenir-Name, Zagzane Bass Tila and Anou Malane.

Oumbadougou, born in 1962 in the north of Nigeria , was expatriated in 1984 to Libya , where in 1987 he founded the group Tagueyt Takrist Nakal to fight for the unity of the Tuareg people. Between 1991 and 1995, his compositions, banned by the Nigerian government, were distributed via pirate cassettes throughout Nigeria , Mali , Algeria , Burkina Faso and Libya . The peace agreements signed in 1995 allowed Oumbadougou to return from exile and…