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Ayen Bior

Senegal's artists are fighting the system with a mic and spray paint

Babacar Niang, known as Matador, raps at a recording studio at Africulturban's center in Pikine, Senegal. (Ricci Shryock for NPR)

PIKINE, Senegal — On Senegal's peninsula, just west of Dakar, is a neighborhood that attracts hundreds of the country's most gifted musicians, artists and creatives.

They all meet at Africulturban, a cultural center in the neighborhood of Pikine. The man who founded it wants radical change.

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