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First Listen: Orchestra Baobab, 'Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng'

Orchestra Baobab's new album, <em>Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng</em>, comes out March 31.

One of West Africa's most charming bands is back — again. Almost a decade after the group's last album and nearly 50 years since its founding, Senegal's Orchestra Baobab is swaggering back onto international dance floors with its silk, sultry songs, layering Afro-Cuban sounds with local traditions and pop styles from across Senegal and elsewhere in

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