[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The inaugural Music in Exile fellow is Burkinabe rapper and producer Serge Martin Bambara aka Smockey. An icon of...
Music in Exile 2016
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CATEGORY: Fellowship 2016
#IndexAwards2016: Murad Subay sheds light on human cost of Yemen’s war
In 2011, artist Murad Subay took to the streets of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a to protest the country’s dysfunctional economy and institutionalised corruption
Music in Exile: Smockey playlist
Serge Bambara, aka Smockey, is a hip-hop artist, producer and activist within Le Balai Citoyen, or the Citizen’s Broom, a grassroots political movement
Smockey: “Not everyone is lucky enough to have a microphone in front of them”
Searching for “dissident artists” online, you’d be forgiven for thinking they are a purely Chinese or Russian phenomenon. But for every Ai Weiwei
