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Senegalese hip hop is really
a linguistic force.

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You can say it is a change
in African mentality,

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because at that time it was French,
and you had to speak really good French

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if people were to listen to you.

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You did like President Senghor.

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But now everyone wants to do
like Daara J Family,

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you start to speak Wolof.

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Give thanks to the true people.

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If you speak Serer, Djola,
Mandinka or English, my friend,

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that's the truth.

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The image of Africa was always
folkloristic or exotic.

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War, AIDS, oh poor little Africans.

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Only the bad images of Africa.

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We wanted to show a positive image.

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That's why I named the group
Positive Black Soul.

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It was an instant hit, immediately
became a local phenomenon

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because we sang in Wolof about
the realities that people live.

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Suddenly there were lots of groups
in every neighborhood.

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People say there are about 3000
rap groups in Senegal.

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Dakar is a musical crossroads.

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There have been a lot of artists
from Europe and the United States

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and from all of Africa
who have come to Dakar.

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There are a lot of shows.

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Every day in the week there are
places with bands playing.

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It started in Burkina.

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It's from there I got
a lot of my influences,

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With singers from Burkina, from Mali
from Congo and from the Ivory Coast,

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and two times a singer from Ghana
who played highlife,

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I played drums and we all
played in different styles.

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That's where I started,
it was my musical school.

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I didn't go to school to learn eighth notes
and whole notes, to read notes and such.

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So I'm autodidact.

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Senegal is a country which has taken
plenty from the colonialization

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but kept even more of its own
culture and way of living.

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Therefore, we now have our own music
with a strong personality,

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a cultural identity that mirrors the
country and almost becomes a language

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that you'll have to learn to understand.

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The Cuban music has always been
very popular here.

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It is still very well known.

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This music was really what
the orchestras here prefered.

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We had to, or rather we wanted to,
have a touch of Cuban music.

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We started singing in
our own language, Wolof.

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Then we introduced the sabar,

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which is a traditional drum in what
was otherwise Cuban music.

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Then we thought that our percussions
would give it another sound.

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Since then we've developed and left the
Latin American and Cuban music behind

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to create a music style
which is completly Senegalese.

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Even though we use modern instruments,

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the way of playing is strictly
Senegalese in its own right.

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That's what's called "mbalax."

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If you look at the musical landscape
in Senegal today,

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all the steps we dared to take
in the beginning

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has made very interesting tracks
for today's artists

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in their engagement, their music and
what they choose to make.

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From the start, rap constitutes
a counter power movement

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which is here just like the parliament.

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We have our voice and we can influence
the way the people think.

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In a way you can say that our music
mirrors the views of a new generation,

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but it also takes the
pulse of the society.

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They often say they prefer
"Barça ou Barsaq."

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Barça is Barcelona and Barsaq is
over there, it's to die.

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To die poor and see... in front of
your parents and your family,

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that you have nothing to give,
they have nothing to eat.

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They prefer to take the boat,
the boat of luck.

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There are a lot of dangers but they
prefer it to staying here, dying poor.

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But today the youth is more aware that
they can work in Africa without leaving.

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It's true that Europe has always given
us a picture, through media,

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an image of El Dorado.

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A lot of people have died for that.

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Today, Daara J Family's message
is to try and dissuade some

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from leaving, to see that they
can make it here in Africa.

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My name is Fatou Mandinue Diatta,
a.k.a. Sista Fa.

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I'm a rapper, singer and
human rights activist.

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I'm Senegalese, from Casamance, and I
have lived in Berlin for, I think, seven years.

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The thing is, there is something very magic
about music, you can do anything with it.

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You take a very powerful message and
you put it into the music

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to try to educate the children
and tell their parents:

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"It is not a weapon, it is a flower."

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"That has been picked for you, so that
you can educate your children."

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You say that music starts
where the language ends.

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Since I call myself an activist and
spokesperson for human rights,

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I'm no longer ashamed to say I was a
victim of genital mutilation.

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I've always felt like an
incomplete person,

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as if I were missing an ear
or walking around without a nose,

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or missing a finger.

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I thought that I wouldn't make a big
drama out of it,

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but I'm going to use my position

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as someone who knows what they're
talking about

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to explain to young people

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and tell them about all the dangers
involved in this practice,

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and let them know that they can
raise their children

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without following ancient traditions

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that can damage their health and their
children's health.

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The Senegalese rappers are very
politically engaged.

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I remember 2000, when the rappers
made a compilation

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to encourage the young people
to go and vote,

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to go and vote
instead of throwing rocks.

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They have done a lot to criticize the
government,

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to encourage the young people

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to make better decisions, to go and
vote and make decisions that way.

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The past elections have shown
something else,

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that the rappers are not only here to
stir up the youth.

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We are also here to fight for the
people.

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I think that if it wasn't for the Y'en a Marre
movement and the M23 movement

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and the Senegalese rappers
behind the movement,

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Wade would still be there.

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The political situation
in Senegal is simple.

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There was an election, and with all
the socio-political movements

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people managed to get rid
of president Wade,

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who wanted a third period in office.

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That's good, but the real fight
isn’t just an election.

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It’s the system that you have to change.

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There’s a new team and they
have promised to change the system.

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They are still quite new,
so we observe them.

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If it doesn’t work,
we go back in the streets.

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And they know it.

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So for the moment we observe a little,

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and we hope that they will respect the
moral contract between them and the people,

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the people who have elected them.

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I hope that the new leaders will see that
they are there to serve and not to be served upon.

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Because democracy isn't just a system
that's good for the West.

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It's a normal system. Human.
How do you say it? I've lost my words...

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It's a natural system,
a system that exists by itself,

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a system where the majority
chooses a leader.

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It's a democratic system.

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It's not an invention that only comes
from Greece.

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Here is Studio Sankara,
where we work to

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try to create good conditions
for our independence.

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Today we no longer have the need to go
to USA or France to make our albums.

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We stay here and record in good conditions.
It's possible.

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Thomas Sankara was president in Burkina
Faso and was assassinated in 1987, 15 October.

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But before he was killed, this gentleman has proved
to us that you can be an African president,

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work for his people,
and sacrifice himself for his people.

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Talking about revolution,
1983 to 1987.

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Someone came, he was
called Captain Just.

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He has told us that we have to find
independent means of production to be independent,

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to not be led around
like a sheep by a colonist.

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Waga 3000, we represent Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso, the land of Thomas Sankara.

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Our cry.
Our warning cry.

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That’s hip-hop, it represents the voice of
the oppressed, the voice of the ghetto.

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The ones that cannot hear the speeches,
the ones who carry the burdens.

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The woman in a village, far from a mobile phone,
you cannot imagine what she has to endure.

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There are millions of Burkinabé
who live in the countryside,

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but their suffering is not very exposed.

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It’s enough to look at the street to see it.
It’s fucked up.

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Our message is that there is a lot of injustice here,
that everything is fucked up.

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We too have to do something.

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Go against the system.

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Every young African has to undertake
something.

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If you don't work for the government,
you have nothing to do.

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Today it circles around getting your
daily bread independently.

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Yes, independent.

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When you look closely at who's gotten
to the higher positions,

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you get worried.

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If you can't get work even though
you've got a diploma,

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then every door is shut.

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I've written a song called
"This President Has To Go,"

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and the song was played on the radio
and it created problems.

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The boss already had problems, pressure,
and tried to put pressure on me.

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So that ended with us separating,

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since I requested that every president
that had been in power for

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more than 20 years should resign
because that becomes dictatorship.

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You can talk about the coffee merchant,
you can talk about the shoe polisher,

00:23:39.120 --> 00:23:42.120
but if you start to talk about
the president's family,

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who often is involved in
journalist murders,

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then you get all sorts of problems.

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According to me, the freedom of speech
shouldn't be limited

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to the goat merchant.

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If the president has killed we have
to have the courage to say to him,

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"You've killed!"

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Thomas Sankara isn't just Africa,
it isn't just Burkina.

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When I see people commit suicide in
the West because of unemployment,

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when I see the young in Greece
go out on the streets

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to demonstrate against the
restraining plans,

00:24:18.001 --> 00:24:21.699
when I see panic everywhere in
Spain, Italy, Frankrike.

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Everyone's panicked by the story
of the financial crisis,

00:24:25.482 --> 00:24:28.101
but Thomas Sankara talked about this
a long time ago.

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It's a crisis,

00:24:31.560 --> 00:24:35.400
because there's a minority that wants
to eat more than the others.

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There's artists existing only to make
Waga Hip Hop once in a lifetime,

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even though the show isn't in
a big arena.

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But Waga Hip Hop is the most credible
since it's the oldest.

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To us the Waga Hip Hop festival is
above all a festival

00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:42.120
to give freedom of speech to the young.

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We've experienced the revolution
as kids and partly grew up with it.

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We're doing our job around the
celebration of Sankara's death,

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which is on the 15th of October,
and every year we're trying to

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make tha festival happen
around that time.

00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:02.600
That makes it possible for the artists

00:26:02.760 --> 00:26:04.720
to say during the concerts,

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:07.440
"Long live Thomas Sankara
and the revolution."

00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:16.920
It's another way to contribute to
this revolution, making it everlasting.

00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.480
In 2000 we wanted to make rap like
Tupac, be like Biggie.

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We watched Snoop Dogg.
But today we have references.

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After 2000 we got references through
our elders like Positive Black Soul,

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:47.360
who showed us that we can be ourselves and
offer our music to the Americans, the French.

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We've mixed our African culture
with the urban

00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:08.480
and what was offered to us.

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By using only the hip-hop basis,
we've added our own culture

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and created somthing new.

00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:21.360
I wish the next Tupac, Jay Z, Dr. Dre,
comes from Africa by 2020.

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I hope and believe that is
going to happen.

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Let's close the chapter

00:27:29.280 --> 00:27:33.560
about the revolution between
1983 and 1987.

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What's going to stop this process,

00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:43.760
this process that was about to lead us
from revolution to democracy?

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It's about lack of loyalty, lack of
sincerity, lack of honesty.

00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:55.440
It’s about culprits, it’s about corruption.
It’s about not talking the truth.

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Not everybody knows our traditional
music, Gazo, everyone can dance to.

00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:21.880
This is cool catché, but the style
is known as Gazo cool catché.

00:29:22.040 --> 00:29:29.400
Let me show you directly.
This is how you dance cool catché.

00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:50.600
I include it all, a bit of Gazo like this,
Agbadja mixed with cool catché.

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Like this for example, one, two.

00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:06.960
Or like this...

00:30:09.120 --> 00:30:15.920
That's my way of mixing
Gazo with cool catché.

00:30:16.080 --> 00:30:21.760
I'm trying to bring a Togolese
identity to cool catché.

00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:29.600
I liked the rhythm. We'd been looking
for our own cultural identity

00:30:29.760 --> 00:30:32.720
without finding it.
But when cool catché arrived,

00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.800
it went all over.
Everybody embraced it, even children.

00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:43.240
To give it an extra traditional touch,
I mixed cool catché with Gazo.

00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:50.240
So two weeks ago I released the real traditional
version of "Gazoo Cool Catché."

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Polyrytmo describes what we're doing.
We're around since 1968.

00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:55.880
So far we've released about 500 records.
That means 1000 or 1500 songs.

00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.999
So, we were there,
we experienced the revolution.

00:32:01.002 --> 00:32:05.560
The revolution has given much to us,
but also taken much from us.

00:32:05.560 --> 00:32:11.760
The revolution has allowed us to have
another dimension in our music.

00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:20.101
We have our own rhythm.
Our funk, our chenka.

00:32:21.999 --> 00:32:24.999
Our style of music
is identified as voodoo funk.

00:32:25.002 --> 00:32:28.758
It's taken from the source of
our national cultural heritage

00:32:28.760 --> 00:32:30.880
to make our music.

00:32:31.040 --> 00:32:34.360
There's plenty of instruments that
came out of the monesteries

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.560
where the Voodoo existed,
where it was worshipped and magnified

00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:40.560
in the monesteries.

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.560
From those monesteries, many
things came.

00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:48.680
The tam-tam drum,
it comes from the monesteries.

00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:53.600
The castanets, it comes
from the monesteries.

00:32:53.760 --> 00:32:56.560
Today, the whole world is
using these instruments.

00:32:57.360 --> 00:33:03.680
We believe Benin has contributed a lot
to the international music scene.

00:33:03.840 --> 00:33:07.800
That is something that
cannot be neglected.

00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:27.480
Attaya, it's peace.

00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:32.680
When people come we share a cup.

00:33:32.840 --> 00:33:39.600
We take this time to sit down and discuss,
talk about reality.

00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:45.600
That's why the Ataya is well
respected and loved by all Senegalese.

00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:48.680
There you go. Cheers.

00:34:02.520 --> 00:34:11.180
Hip-hop opened doors for the young
Senegalese generation of singers.

00:34:16.600 --> 00:34:21.280
Today there's hip-hop.
Something else is about to emerge.

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:24.920
We don't know exactly what,
but time will tell.

00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:31.920
I can't say it was by chance,
but I understood pretty early

00:34:32.080 --> 00:34:34.600
that I can't be like the Americans.

00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:44.040
I made the choice.
I don't want to be like an American.

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I'm satisfied with myself.
I feel good as an African.

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I have my own spot in this world.
I will always be proud of this place.

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Meaning, I defend originality,
the African reality.

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By using our traditional instruments,
the kora, the djembe, and the khin,

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which is a real spiritual instrument
that we have,

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this makes that the style of Carlou D
known as muzikr.

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The music and the zikr.

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Zikr is a spiritual Senegalese way of
singing, that's the Baye Fall order.

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We're going down the road to hand out
some flyers for an event.

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With Soundcloud, people download my
songs and post them on Facebook.

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When I upload a new song, instantly,
I get hundreds of downloads

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until the maximum limit is reached.
They say, "You have to send more!"

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But also outside in the diaspora
people download it.

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The internet access is now easy.

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Drive here, make a turn right here.

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It used to be hard for Gambian
artists getting played on radio or TV.

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In our own country!

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But now, "Allhamdullillah", thank god!

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If you want to listen to African music?

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C'mon, lets do it for ourselves!

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He's a Manding. Manding originates
from the Manding Empire in Mali,

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and we are rooted from that group.

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And you sing to me something
that is going to root it to me,

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that something in my heart
to know where I belong:

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in the Manding Empire.

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Today, Gambia could be a part of
the Manding Empire.

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Mali could be part of
the Manding Empire.

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Ivory Coast and also Burkina Faso
could be part of the Manding Empire.

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We now are free to use this
heritage the way we want.

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Inside, for example, griots tradition.
Everything is not traditional.

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They continue singing some traditional
songs in a very modern way.

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Inside what we think is Malian tradition,
there is modernity.

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Our music can be divided in two parts.

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One that's our own creation,

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and one that's based
on the traditional music.

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It's the traditional music that we've
modernized with modern instruments.

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We play it with the guitar,
the djembe and so on.

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But the spirit is the same,
it's the spirit of our traditional music.

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It's a style of music that emerged
out of the resistance struggle.

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Music transports the people's needs.
Daily problems in the desert,

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the exile, the suffering,
bad treatment and education, and so on.

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Our music appealed to the young people.
Instantly they liked it.

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The inspiration of our music
comes from right and left,

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Combined with African sounds,
European or American sounds.

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It's impossible to control.
You can't control inspiration.

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Not even the inspired can control
the true source of inspiration.

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It's unexplainable. I listen to music
from Latin America and Australia,

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and from that I can recieve a glimpse
of inspiration or influence

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that I will add to my music
without even knowing it.

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When people ask me about Europe,
I talk to them.

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I talk to them in a
slightly distanced way.

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They think "She's not one of us anymore.
She's from Europe."

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I tell this to my friends.
I tell them how I feel.

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Even though they don't
always accept it,

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they'll always say:
"Fatou, only help me make it to Europe."

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"We don't care what we will find there."

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"It can never be more complicated than
the life we live in here Senegal."

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One thing is for sure, in Senegal
you can have no money and still live.

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In Europe, you'll be on minus.
No money, no family, no happiness.

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While in Africa, you can be without
money and still have your family,

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maybe even happiness, because the people
surrounding you can also show love.

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In my own family, my cousin who I
used to live with died on a boat.

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They threw his body into the sea,
claiming he got dizzy and fell into the water.

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I told my father he died because
they couldn't travel with him.

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They threw him into the sea to feed
the fishes.

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It’s really a tragedy for my family.
He was called Famara. Famara Badji.

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We used to call him "Badjo".
May him rest in peace,

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one of many Senegalese and African victims
who have wanted to come to Europe.

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I'm the type of guy, I rap what I live
and I do it for love.

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The person I am,
on the street or on stage,

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I stay the same guy.

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That's my philosophy.

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I come from a really hard place.

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People don't have any
security or health care.

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There are so many issues.

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There's plenty of problems
for the people where I come from.

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My first priority is to represent them
and deal with these issues.

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They can't be heard.
But I have a weapon: my music.

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What's being said quietly
I can speak out loud.

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Besides the protest aspect,
I also make nice music.

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You can't only talk of the ghetto,
life under harsh circumstances.

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Sometimes you only need to
listen to nice music,

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music that touches you,
daily life things you see on the street.

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I don't look for inspiration.
It finds me at home or in the streets.

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I don't need to look far to sing.

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We're a big network of Sankarists
all over the world.

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We really believe that with these kinds
of ideas we can change our lives,

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the lives of the people living with us.

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Yes, he was honest.

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Even if it wasn’t the democracy way,
because it wasn't democracy yet in Africa,

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people felt like there was an African
leader doing things the right way,

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starting by doing things
the right way himself.

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He didn't have such a
long time to continue.

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Now he's a kind of hero
because of that.

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Nobody knows what would have
happened if he continued,

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but probably the short example he showed
is the right one for Africa.

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Even if they killed Sankara in '87,
we are still asking for justice first,

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and we still believe that was
the best example.

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You can kill a man,
but not his ideas.

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They killed Sankara, but Sankarism is
everywhere now whether you want it or not.

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And he will have it on his face every day.

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We want Sankara back.
We want the ideas of Sankara back.

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We want the philosophy of
Sankara back.

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And we need to continue his fight,
and we will do it.