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Sister Fa
Fatou Diatta, aka Sister Fa is a Hip-Hop artist that was born in Dakar, Senegal. After reading about Senegal I was interested in exploring whether there were any female Hip-Hop artists there, and I discovered Sister Fa. In 2010, digitaljournal.com posted a profile of Sister Fa that described her as courageous and determined, considering she
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Language, Ideologies, Choices, and Practices in Eastern African Hip Hop
This is an essay written by, Alex Perullo and John Fenn which can be found in the book Global Pop, Local Language by, Harris M. Berger and Michael Thomas Carroll. Since Hip Hop’s emergence in North America during the 1970’s and 1980’s, Hip Hop has become a global way for the youth to express their own