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Known as the country's greatest guitarist, he stepped away from music in 2000, retreating to his village in the semi-desert region of Niafunke to cultivate both his rice farm and his community. In 2004, he was elected mayor of Niafunke's 53 villages and invested the majority of his music royalties into an irrigation scheme.