{"id":233,"date":"2009-12-21T18:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/2009\/african-underground-democracy-in-dakar\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:37:48","slug":"african-underground-democracy-in-dakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/african-underground-democracy-in-dakar\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICAN UNDERGROUND: DEMOCRACY IN DAKAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>African Underground: Democracy in Dakar<\/em> explores the transformative role of hip-hop on politics in Senegal. Looking at the 2007 presidential elections through the eyes of hip-hop artists around Dakar, Senegal\u2019s capital, the film mixes interviews, freestyle performances, and commentary from journalists, artists, and politicians. In a society on the brink of democratic change, hip-hop artists are among the few groups unafraid to speak out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Underground: Democracy in Dakar explores the transformative role of hip-hop on politics in Senegal. Looking at the 2007 presidential elections through the eyes of hip-hop artists around Dakar, Senegal\u2019s capital, the film mixes interviews, freestyle performances, and commentary from journalists, artists, and politicians. In a society on the brink of democratic change, hip-hop artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senegal","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}