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This essay was featured in our Conscious Citizens Dispatch #24. Click here to read the full newsletter!
Rap has played an important role in Senegalese politics for a long time. In their 2014 book, The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities, authors Mamadou Diouf and Rosalind Fredericks describe how rap has been used as a political tool and a means of youth mobilization since the 1980s because of its ability to connect with people normally outside the realm of politics.
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