It took only two songs before the first members of the Wisconsin Union Theater audience got up to dance to the music of Habib Koite and his band, Bamada. The number of dancers grew larger as the evening wore on.
…Koite is lending his image to an Oxfam America brochure calling for caps on federal trade subsidies for U.S. cotton exports to central and west Africa, where local farmers are unable to sell their own crops due a glut of cheap, subsidized U.S. cotton. Oxfam volunteers circulated in the crowd, collecting signatures to send to legislators.