South Sudan Musicians Spread Message Through Music
08/17/2013
Sunny Jain (center) is a big fan of the dohl instrument. (Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien)
Hello again and welcome to As It Is, from VOA Learning English. I’m June Simms in Washington.
On the show today, we take to the dance floor with an exciting new mix of music that blends northwestern Indian and Pakistani bhangra with jazz, funk, hip-hop and other forms of music.
But first, we hear how musicians in newly liberated South Sudan are using their music to spread news about problems facing their country.
South Sudan Musicians Spread Message Through Music
South Sudan is still struggling to overcome huge difficulties just two years after its war of independence with the north. Almost two million people were killed in the war. Millions more were displaced. Many refugees of that war are now returning home. One such returnee is rising hip-hop artist Lual D’Awol. Mario Ritter has more.
Lual D’Awol found his love for hip-hop growing up in the American city of Baltimore, Maryland. There he listened to Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. and reggae artists like Bob Marley. Lual started rapping in 2010. Since returning home to South Sudan, he has used his music to talk about problems in his country.
“My stage name is L-U-A-L, which stands for Lyrically Untouchable African Legend. I just rap about a lot of the things that are going on in South Sudan politically, socially. I talk about corruption, I talk about tribalism, I talk about nepotism, I talk about all the -isms that are not going well in this nation and trying to expose them.”
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