politics and hip hop in senegal
June 15, 2009 1 Comment
While making the documentary, “African Underground: Democracy in Dakar,” which “… explores the transformative role of hip-hop on politics in Senegal, West Africa during the February 2007 presidential election campaign,” the filmmakers posted segments on the internet. That’s the first web episode above.
If you liked that, next week the full documentary–now complete–will be screened (Thursday, 23 June) at at The 92nd Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Meanwhile you can watch the web episodes here.
Nice to see the visual material of this project,which also produced two great cd’s.What I find interesting about this is,how in Senegal Hip Hop has been chosen as the tool of transformation,whereas in Ivory Coast Reggae has been the driving force.Would be interesting to know why?Anyhow,good to see the youth take things into their hands,participating in the creation of their future and not just looking on as the elites keep on recycling their pawns.