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  • mhm.

  • Most of them young people will get radicalized.

  • They will take rifles to make change corruption.

  • That's the reality here.

  • Most of my friends don't have job little around here.

  • Well, you know, mhm.

  • Senegal has been experiencing some of the country's worst unrest in nearly a decade.

  • Over two weeks, thousands of young people took to the streets.

  • The protests kicked off after the arrest of opposition leader was man sank.

  • Oh, he was accused of rape.

  • But some people are worried that the case is an attempt by President Macky Sall to silence the opposition, something the government denies.

  • The protests ended earlier this month, but the tensions Amnesty International says 12 protesters died.

  • One of them was sheer wad.

  • A 32 year old Taylor who was shot and killed at the protests.

  • We're seeing his brothers sewing machine here.

  • So this is where his brother would make close to then sell them like machine.

  • We see Conservative machine.

  • What actually happened on that day?

  • How was he killed?

  • Bomb When we are from tip 0 2000 for Harold Dynasty.

  • Yeah, I'm a monk down floor.

  • I'm not gonna export.

  • You want to present Senegal is seen as a beacon of democracy and stability in Africa.

  • And the economy here has grown in recent years.

  • But young people say that wealth is not being shared with them.

  • And they've had enough.

  • This hip hop center was built to provide young people here with opportunities.

  • Yeah, we have delinquents.

  • We have prostitution.

  • We have robberies.

  • We have many, many kinds of bad things.

  • I'm very scared for young people.

  • Because when actual political leaders of the future political leaders still lying to the people when they do not respect what they promised to the people, most of them young people will get radicalized.

  • They will take rifles to make change.

  • Uh huh.

  • The young don't have opportunity.

  • They don't feel part of the system.

  • Yes, I'm really, really, really afraid from your friends, your friends that you see here.

  • Are they in work?

  • Do they have jobs?

  • No.

  • Most of my friends don't have jobs.

  • They don't have anything to do.

  • So they turned to crime and other problems like that.

  • Mhm, Mhm, Mhm.

  • This song, which she wrote herself, is about the loss of hope and feeling undervalued.

  • It sums up how a lot of her generation feels My mother can't talk.

mhm.

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