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Special Film Screening & Performance
AFRICA UNDERGROUND: Democracy in Dakar
Exploring conflict transformation in Muslim & African hip hop
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 Monday, April 21, 2008
Presented by GMU Project Nur
The 69-minute feature film explores how hip hop and Islam were used as a tool of conflict transformation in Senegal during the February 2007 presidential election campaign.
Participate in a panel discussion lead by the directors of the film and the featured artists in the film, and Stacy Willyard, a researcher at the United States Institute for Peace and a GMU student, about her research on Africa and hip hop.
Experience the performance. The African Underground artists will perform a show to exemplify how they use conflict transformation and promote change through their talent.
Hip hop is being used in its organic form as a positive and powerful tool of transformation by the youth to voice their human rights and desire for social change. Looking at the election through the eyes of hip-hop artists around Dakar, Senegal's capital, this documentary mixes interviews, free-styles, and commentary from journalists, artists and politicians. Senegalese society is seen on the brink of democratic change, where hip-hop artists are one of the few groups unafraid to speak out despite intimidation.
Co-Sponsors:
- United States Institute of Peace
- Conflict Analysis and Resolution Dept., GMU
- African American Studies Program, GMU
- University Dispute Resolution Project
- Nomadic Wax and Sol Productions
- Interdisciplinary Global Program Committee, GMU
- University Life Programming Committee, GMU
- Transformational Art: Hip Hop and Peacebuilding Festival
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