How The General soundtracked the 'jasmine revolution' in Tunisia | Ally Carnwath

Tunisian rapper The General is the latest in a long and glorious line of seditious African musiciansIn the week before the downfall of the Tunisian president, 30 plain-clothes police officers arrived at the family home of Hamada Ben-Amor in the coastal city of Sfax and arrested him.The 22-year-old rapper – known to his fans as The General – was among a number of prominent dissidents and activists targeted by police in a last-ditch attempt to suppress the demands for change that were echoing ...

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