Malam Mamane Barka (1958/1959 – 21 November 2018) was a Nigerian musician, and one of the world's most prominent players of the biram African harp.

[2] Malam Mamane Barka was born in 1958 or 1959 in Tesker, a town in the east of the then autonomous republic of Niger.

As a player of the Ngurumi, a two-string plucked instrument, he gained popularity in his homeland and neighboring Nigeria.

It is a five-stringed instrument used by the Boudouma people, a fishing community on Lake Chad, for traditional songs.

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