The Burkina Faso rap musician, Louis Salif Kiekieta (a.k.a. Smarty) on Tuesday played in Ethiopia for the first time at the Alliance Ethio-Franҫaise.
He played his rap music with his band, which uses both modern musical instruments and the traditional ones. His songs mostly featured the demise of those who make Africa a continent for devastation and desperate people. Despite some of the criticisms made against him and some African musicians who play rap in Africa, he applauds rap as being a very good sort of music to transmit messages. Moreover, as a very popular music genre, he believes it can promote African culture and identity.
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