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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A typical episode of Journal Rappé begins with Senegalese rapper Makhtar “Xuman” Fall dressed in a suit and seated behind a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...