The latest work of the Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi “Ma Révolution” is also a political album. The individual titles address and criticize current political and social problems on the African continent that are regularly associated with European interventions.
Album titles such as “Coup d’Etat Démocratique”(“Democratic Coup”), “Génération Consciente” (“Responsible Generation”) or “Ce qu’ils disent” (“What They Say”), some of which contain elements of reggae or were created in collaboration with Tyronne Downie, the pianist of Bob Marley’s Wailers, deal with the regular coups in the region, NATO’s intervention and hypocritical development aid discourses of the “international community”.
“With elements of hardcore rap, dirty south, acoustic music and mbalax, the album is of great maturity, rich in musicality, carefully written as usual and full of subtlety. Awadi himself describes it as the most successful work of recent years. His goal, he insists, is to make this work a classic of the “(Self)Conscious Generation”: “The challenge is to make you dance, but at the same time to make you think.”
AfricAvenir album description