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Getting The News To West African Youth, Through Hip-Hop

NPR

By Jake Warga

Published February 1, 2015 at 5:05 PM EST

In Dakar, Senegal, two rappers going by the names Keyti and Xuman offer a summary of the week's news in hip-hop format.

This story originally aired on All Things Consideredon Jan. 15, 2015.

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