In the Congo is elected in two weeks will have a new President. Activists and musicians in the country to protest creatively against corruption and mismanagement.
A recording Studio somewhere in Kinshasa, the capital of the Congo. It is tiny, has Graffiti on the walls and it smells like sweat. It is not a nice place. But Bob is the Elvis of all of the do not disturb. In the two square feet of big Box, he raps again and again in his Text against the political class. “A large part of the children of our elites live in Europe. Their women live there,” he says. “But we are here. If you’re here sick, to the hospital to go and no money, wouldn’t treat you.”
rapping against the President
Bob Elvis had written at the beginning of 2018, a Song against the incumbent President, Joseph Kabila. “Dégage!” – “Sod off!” is the name of the song. He called on Kabila, at last, the office of the President. Because Kabila had extended his term again and again – contrary to the Congolese Constitution. Two years ago, a new President had to be elected.
Not only Elvis had protested, many citizens and activists in the Congo, went back on the road. They asked the President finally to organize an election and not even compete, since he had completed two terms in office, according to the Constitution, already. In the summer, Joseph Kabila decided On 23.12. is elected and he is not standing. A great success, Elvis.
Rap for a different policy, activists and musicians involved in the Congo
mirror of the world, 06.12.2018, Caroline Jojobet Hoffmann, ARD, Nairobi
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