Identités africaines : le rap comme lieu d’expression

Abstract

The study of rap, an urban speech form, entails studying language problems in a multicultural, multilingual and multiethnic urban centers. The initial results of an underway study of rap music taken to be a form of expression where urban behaviors, attitudes and identities take shape in Senegal and Gabon are presented. The description of language code choices in rap texts serves to provide an account of possible meanings and of, in particular, the negotiating of of identities.