
- Govina DAMY, reading 2min
While hip hop culture is often known as a movement in its own right, growing out of the Afro-American ghetto community in the 70s, in Madagascar the style attracted young people more for its "scruffy" than "revolutionary" side. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Kolontsaina Mainty collective and the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Antananarivo jumped at the chance to discuss the place of hip hop in Malagasy society.