AfroCubismAuthor: AfroCubism Release Date: 02 11 2010 Details: The great world music album that never was has finally been realised. The project that became the Buena Vista Social Club has borne its own extraordinary fruit. In 1996, a group of Mali's finest musicians were due to fly into Havana for a speculative collaboration with some of Cuba's most brilliant singers and instrumentalists. For reasons that have never been made clear, the Malians never arrived.