Senegalese rappers use music to raise awareness on statelessness, migration.

Record ID: 77532

  • Title: Senegalese rappers use music to raise awareness on statelessness, migration.
  • Date: 25th November 2016
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (French) BIDEEW BOU BESS BAND MEMBER, MOCTAR SALL SAYING: "We wanted to make a modest contribution in highlighting the issues of statelessness, to sound the alarm so that our leaders can ratify conventions and help stateless people, because a stateless person is a person who does not legally exist, and if you do not exist, you can do absolutely nothing. So as activists in a sense, we decided to talk about statelessness for the world to know."
  • Embargoed: 10th December 2016 14:01
  • Keywords: Migrants Stateleness Bideew Bou Bess West Africa Music UN Migration
  • Location: DAKAR, SENEGAL/BAGA SOLA, CHAD/AGADEZ, NIGER
  • City: DAKAR, SENEGAL/BAGA SOLA, CHAD/AGADEZ, NIGER
  • Country: Senegal
  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Music
  • Reuters ID: LVA00359XZYVR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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