MOKOBE LASHES OUT AT AFRICA

The rappers in the diaspora are constantly reminded of their African roots. But are they really in tune with the African continent?
The second album Mokobé, Africa Forever, was released October 24. Four years after my Africa which brought together the cream of the West African music rapper of the group 113 playing fully again the map of wheat and double crop.
On the cover, Mokobé opens her jacket from which a green yellow red plane "Air Mokobé." Below the Eiffel Tower rubs shoulders symbols of rural Africa for less: sand dunes, a mosque in the ground and a tree.
In 2007 the message of My Africa is as follows: Africa is beautiful, fun and live even if it is the West spoke in the wheels. This course has been maintained consensus on Africa Forever if we are to believe the first songs released. Oulala with the star of the cut and shifted to dance DJ Arafat, 50 CFA for laughs by caricaturing the African version of 50 Cent, and Africa Forever to think the fate of Africa:
"They threw a light on our history (...) they cancel the debt at once (...) How can we starve the people of Somalia and entire Horn of Africa as the continent's land serves as a pump money? "denounces Mokobé decorated and raised to the rank of" most popular Malian Diaspora "by President Amadou Toumani Toure himself.
The African gold mine of French rap?
Even when speaking of Africans in the first person plural the gap between the perception of problems in Africa by French rappers and their African counterparts is obvious.
French rapper of Cameroonian parents, Lalcko goes "all the time" in Cameroon. This brings him a step back. He noted on site that "it's been that France itself is not a problem in Africa. An African who gets up in the morning with his concerns do not think the French. " But seen from France, "as soon as there is an" original sin "that can give rise to all the demagoguery."
In some of his texts as he criticizes the former colonists that Africans complicit (Lumumba, Money Vatican) but refuses to speak for the Africans:

 "As a French rappers we have a problem with France, but not as Africans. We are not the ambassadors of Africa, they are able to carry their voice. "
In his home studio in Bamako coated foam squares, Amkoulell is not surprised by the vision of French rappers:
"Booba has the right to be at odds. Africans do not expect the French artists of African descent they denounce African problems. The struggle of French rappers are on another level that corresponds to the anxieties and questions that may arise people who listen. "
He did not take them to France:
"I have too much respect for Africans to suggest that we do not our destiny. My approach is: what Africans can do to make things get better? "
What annoys the other hand it is the French rappers' that use wheat as an ensign but do nothing for the country. When you take you give. Shows that what you say in your lyrics is not just business. "
He has devoted a verse in one of its next report:
"Nothing you speak, you speak, you speak of jealousy / but you speak of Mali, but you do not care / it is convenient to make money to speak of Africa / money! money! money! that's your trip / this fraud will eventually be / everyone will see what you're big mythological / what have you done for the youth here? I gave myself my whole life in Mali (...) "