“Everyone knows I’m the rapper who carries the voice of women, no matter what,” says the defiant Senegalese hip-hop artist Sister LB. “We are seen as the weak sex but we are a strong sex – it is us who give life. If I didn’t amplify the voice of women, it would be like denying my own voice and killing myself.”
Sister LB, 34, wants to empower women and highlight social injustice through her music. In doing so she has become part of a burgeoning female rap and hip-hop scene in Senegal, carrying forward the country’s legacy of socially conscious and radical urban music.
