Faada Freddy has a message for Senegal’s leaders: If they don’t keep their promises they can expect a tightly rhymed tongue-lashing from his fellow rappers. The threat is more intimidating than it ...

The father of Senegalese gangsta rap for the past 15 years and a dogged activist, the singer has been held in prison since 24 January for “spreading fake news and making death threats”. “No amount of ...

Leur premier album, P.A. Universal, vient de sortir. L’objectif pour les membres d'Akatsuki SN : se faire une place dans le milieu du rap sénégalais et exporter leur musique à l’international. Les ...

TV audiences in Senegal have witnessed the rise of a new genre of broadcast journalism, presented by two local rap stars Xuman (39) and Keyti (40), leading figures in the the movement opposing ...

An orange streetlight glows over the sandy street corner. The surrounding alleys and cement buildings disappear into darkness at the edge of the light. It is 11 p.m. on this July night, temperatures ...

Les rappeurs sénégalais revendiquaient une place au soleil. Ils l’ont eue. Désormais, ils auront accès à la télévision. Le rap sort de l’underground dakarois pour partir à l’assaut de la culture ...

For six months, Ali Colleen Neff, a doctoral candidate in communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, had worked with advisers from the African and African-American studies ...

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Don't worry that you may not understand more than a word here and there, it's catchy anyway, set to a nice Afrobeat background. And, as the story below says, "They even interview people on the street ...

Educating the young is the key to ending female genital mutilation in African countries, where the practice is still deeply embedded in some communities, according to a campaigning Senegalese rapper ...