Boy Saloum

Thiat and Kilifeu are two of Senegal's most popular rappers. Denise is a computer scientist and social networker. Fadel is an investigative journalist. In 2011, they founded the «Y'en a marre!» movement, unaware that they would soon be making history by taking the lead in social protest against the regime. In just a few months, they became the spokespersons for an African youth suffocated by unemployment and job insecurity, subjected to the diktat of a globalized economy and deprived of education and health care, but also anchored in its time, open to the world and eager for culture and democracy. They are the symbol of an African youth rooted in the times, open to the world, eager for culture and committed to democracy, far removed from Western clichés about Africa.