Dimi Mint Abba has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 21 November 2019. Songs played include Oh Lord Bring Apartheid Crashing Down!, Chaviou Elwara: El Barm (Theme) and El Belloutou.

Dimi Mint Abba (Arabic: ديمي منت آبا‎‎; 25 December 1958 – 4 June 2011) was one of Mauritania's most famous musicians.

She was born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba in 1958 into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.

Dimi's parents were both musicians (her father had been asked to compose the Mauritanian national anthem), and she began playing at an early age. Her professional career began in…