In Hip Hop Time

In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop--"Rap Galsen"--has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during a series of tumultuous presidential elections. Yet Senegalese hip hop''s story goes beyond resistance; it is a story of globalization, of diasporic movement and memory, of imagined African pasts and contem...