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Field journalist based in Bamako, Mory Touré becomes the first official Festival Explorer Festival TV . Microphone in hand and camera in shoulder, it tells the parties and festivals of West Africa where they live: in the heart of the party.
Mory Touré is one of the world's largest festival explorers. He has been visiting festivals around the world for more than 30 years — and he is at the heart of culture in Mali. He is an explorer, rich in thirty years of roads, scenes and encounters, whom Festival TV sends to the field.
After Ouagadougou, heading for Morocco. 18-21 November 2026, Rabat welcomes the 13th edition of Visa For Music, the first festival and music market in Africa and the Middle East. Mory Touré will be there — as a member of the European Parliament.Official Ambassador of Visa For Music for Mali, and with its Festival Explorer official Festival TV cap: showcases, professional meetings, interviews and behind the scenes, to follow on Festival TV .
Next destination for Mory Touré: Visa For Music, Rabat, Morocco, 18-21 November 2026. Images: Mory Touré · Festival Explorer .
African music, he tells it every day. For years, he was one of the voices of "Cultures Tropicales" (RFI), of which he was the correspondent in Mali: the Malian and West African scenes resonated there until a world audience.
Promoter and host of Radio Afrika, he also works within the SPLITPROD for the production of content and events. Based on Bamako, it travels the routes of the festivals of Africa and Europe — from the big scenes to the festivals that make the heart of the regions beat. Vieilles Charrues, of which he is very close to the direction, the Paléo Festival He has been shooting in Europe and Africa for over thirty years, and his field has been well beyond Mali, from festival to festival, as close as possible to the cultures that tell of it.
He's also official ambassador of Visa For Music — the Africa Middle East Music Festival in Rabat, whose official visual shows it as the ambassador of Mali (see the gallery below).
Its terrain is the living celebration: artists, organizers, audiences. Exactly the spirit of Festival Explorer.
The first official Festival Explorer
On 25 October 2026, Festival TV designated Mory Touré first official Festival Explorer The channel's field reports — interviews, behind the scenes, atmospheres captured at the heart of the festivals — feed the Festival TV's antenna, sound JT of the Festivals and issue Festival Explorer. Now, everything Mory Touré does is found on Festival TV antennas. This page will grow as it goes through its missions: every content it sends from the ground finds its place there.
The front page — the great portrait
Mory Touré , the face of African festivals
Journalist from Bamako, former Malian voice of "Colours Tropicales" (RFI), promoter-animator of Radio Afrika, official ambassador of Visa For Music for Mali, sponsor of Festival TV and first official Festival Explorer: Festival TV publishes the great portrait of the one that the channel presents as one of the greatest explorers of the festivals and festivals of the world — its route, its grounds, from Ouagadougou to Gabon and to Europe, and its next destination: Visa For Music , in Rabat.
The subjects signed Mory Touré for Festival TV , from the latest to the first.
On the antenna — opening the loop
Burkina Focus: the showcases of the REMA 2026
On 22 October, at the City of Music Ouagadougou evening "Focus Burkina" of the 9th edition of the Rencontres Musicales Africaines (REMA) put five artists from Burkina Faso into a showcase. Mory Touré filmed the concert and three interviews: Fereke Wassa (the group), Elue 111 and Eunice Goula (songwriter artists). The subject opens the antenna of Festival TV and loops.
In the margins of the Rencontres Musicales Africaines (REMA), at the Hotel Bravia in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), music actors, students and experts discussed a burning topic: how to take advantage of artificial intelligence in musical creation while preserving the rights of authors? Mory Touré conducted interviews at the forum "Reinventing Creation, Visibility and Value", with Luc Mayitoukou (cultural administrator, consultant), Youssef Ouedraogo (cultural journalist) and Chantal Kaboré Forgo (Secretary General of the BBDA). The subject, mounted in large format from the JT of the Festivals, is broadcast in loop on Festival TV; it is also the featured video of the media library.
GAYA — Mali launches its International Dance Biennial
In Bamako, Mory Touré covered the launch of the GAYA, the International Dance Biennial of Mali, worn by I Dance'O and Bibata Ibrahim Maïga: a first edition that installs Malian dance in the centre of the cultural map, with a cycle that runs until 2028. His report is to be read on Festival TV .
FEMOGA 2026 — Fashion Festival in Gabon, 4th edition
On the ground of Gabonese fashion: Mory Touré covered the 4th edition of the FEMOGA, the Fashion Festival in Gabon, and published an album of 18 photos on its Facebook on July 7, 2026.
A message to send to him? Write to him with the "Contact" button.
Contact professionnel
To reach Mory Touré in a professional setting — reports, partnerships, festival invitations — go through Festival TV: [email protected] · +1 367 382-2499 — Professional WhatsApp, also available on WhatsApp, or on the page Contact.
Fiche vudié le 25 octobre 2026 — compte officiale confirmé : profil Facebook public de Mory Touré (facebook.com/mory.toure.1671), public jobs posted (RFI "Colours Tropicales", Radio Afrika, SPLITPRED).
