N'Gou Bagayoko (Mali) N'Gou Bagayoko has been known among insiders as the guitarist of Nahawa Doumbia*. In fact, an encounter with a music teacher triggered his interest in guitar playing around 1970 when he was in his early twenties. He worked as a primary school teacher in Bougouni during the 1970s until 1988, but started his musical activities in 1980 accompanying Nahawa Doumbia* who also just started singing. He learnt playing guitar mainly by listening to the kamalen n'goni Read more on Last.fm