AURA or some political production of hip-hop music
For the last twenty years, hip-hop in West Africa, among the few musical genres common to the whole region, has considerably contributed to the vitality of the local musical sector as well as to social change among the West African youth. hip-hop music has asserted itself through the articulation of new socio-cultural and ideologico-political perspectives. Drawing the nowadays globalised geographies of hip-hop and its musical expression, this article suggests an analysis of the political production of hip-hop musical from the West African collective, AURA. The mobilisation of those hip-hop actors thus illustrates the application of the differential politics and the politics of difference inscribed in this musical genre in West Africa.