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Burkina Faso Music Honored at Grammys, but Artists Cry Foul

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For musicians from the West African nation of Burkina Faso, a nomination for a Grammy Award should have been the crowning achievement of a musical career. Instead, musicians based in Bobo-Dioulasso, whose work is featured on the three-disk compilation “Bobo Yeye,” didn’t even know they had been nominated or that the album even existed. “As a musician, I am totally disappointed to learn that we have spent time moaning, suffering and that someone else can just make a compilation of our...

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