Smockey: “We would like to trust the justice of our country”
Burkinabe rapper and activist with Le Balai Citoyen, Smockey, became the inaugural Music in Exile Fellow at the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression...
Burkina Faso lawyer abuducted soon after release from prison
OUAGADOUGOU— A celebrated lawyer and leader of Burkina Faso's civil society was kidnapped just hours after being freed from prison,...
Music in Exile: Smockey playlist
Serge Bambara, aka Smockey, is a hip-hop artist, producer and activist within Le Balai Citoyen, or the Citizen's Broom, a grassroots...
Smockey: Burkinabe rapper and activist on European tour despite years of censorship
Smockey, whose given name is Serge Bambara, was the inaugural Index on Censorship Music in Exile Fellow in April of the same year.
Smockey: “Not everyone is lucky enough to have a microphone in front of them”
Searching for “dissident artists” online, you'd be forgiven for thinking they are a purely Chinese or Russian phenomenon. But for every Ai Weiwei.
The home of Burkina Faso’s hip hop democracy movement has mysteriously burned down—again
A hip hop studio in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, helped jumpstart one of Africa's most successful democratic transitions.
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Burkinabè rapper and political activist; co-founder of Le Balai Citoyen and prominent figure in the 2014 protests that led to the ousting of President Blaise Compaoré.