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-« WEST AFRICAN CULTURAL AGENDA »: »SPOTLIGHT ON THE NEW « COUPER DECALER » MUSICAL TREND(PAN AFRICAN HIP HOP)(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY THE INTERNATIONAL FREELANCE  REPORTER (« YVES TAPAY BOUAZO ») IN THE BRITISH MONTHLY NEWSPAPER( « THE PHOENIX NEWSPAPER » ON (JUNE 2014),( THE FIRST OUSTANDING ARTICLE ON IVORIAN « COUPER DECALER » MUSIC IN A BRITISH NEWSPAPER ! A SPECIAL REQUEST FROM OUR POTENTIAL READERS WORLDWIDE INDEED!

-( « THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT « MOSA MARCUS GARVEY » STILL LINGERS DEEPLY IN THE MINDS OF THE PAN A FRICAN YOUTH NOWADAYS ».

MEANWHILE SINCE THE (2000S), A NEW TREND OF AUTHENTIC PAN AFRICAN NEW « HIP HOP » LED BY THE LATE IVORIAN PERFORMER »DOUG SAGA »,THEN LATER BACKED UP BY OTHER IVORIAN PEREFORMERS SUCH AS: « LINO VERSACE », « LE MOLARE », « DJ ARAFAT », « SERGES BEYNAUD », »DEBORDEAUX LEKUNFA », HAS INDEED REACHED THE PINACLE AND TODAY IS TAKING HIGHER GROUND IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA, AS WELL AS IN THE DIASPORA:(FRANCE,ITALY,BELGIUM,HOLLAND,ENGLAND , GERMANY) AND MANY MORE.

MOREOVER, IN WEST AFRICA, THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW AUTHENTIC PAN AFRICAN HIP HOP » CALLED » COUPER DECALER » REMAINS THE FOLLOWING PERFORMERS: »DJ ARAFAT », »SERGES BEYNAUD »,  « DEBORDEAUX LEKUNFA », AND THE NEW  OUTSIDER « BEBI PHILPS » WHO ARE STILL MASHING UP THE « COUPER DECALER » ENTERTAINMENT FIELD IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA AND EUROPE RIGHT NOW!CULTURALLY SPEAKING, THE « COUPER DECALER » PAN AFRICAN HIP HOP CAN BE LABELLED AS A COMING BACK TO THE AUTHENTIC PAN AFRICAN MUSICAL ROOTS, BACKED UP BY A CREATIVE POWER TO BRING AN INPUT AND AN INNOVATIVE MUSICAL APPROACH.AS A  RESULT, THE NEW PAN AFRICAN YOUTH TURNED TO  THEIR ROOTS TO UNRAVELLING THE CULTURAL COMPLEX OF  COLONIAL  ALIENATION THEY WERE BORN IN, THROUGH THE SUPPRESSION OF A SLICE OF THEIR ANCESTRAL CULTURE AND IDENTITY!IN RETURN,, THEY USED THE « COUPER DECALER » CULTURAL WEAPON, BECAUSE IT WAS THE MOST POTENT SYMBOL  OF IDENTITY OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE POST- INDEPENDENCE COLONIAL POWERS.IN « ABIDJAN »,(IVORY COAST)(WEST AFRICA), ONE OF THE MOST SOPHISTICATED POST-INDEPENDENCE AFRICAN METROPOLISES, AT THEIR FIRST GIGS IN (2003), THEY USED TO GO WILD AT THE SOUNDS OF « COUPER DECALER », THE VERY BEGINNING OF A PAN AFRICAN SUCCESS STORY OF « COUPER DECALER » IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA.ALONG WITH THEIR ORIGINAL MATERIAL AND LOCAL DIALECT MIXED UP WITH FRENCH, THEY WERE BEGINNING TO CREATE THE « COUPER DECALER » GRADUALLY!

-DOWN THE LINE, WHEN « DJ ARAFAT », AND « SERGES BEYNAUD » MATURED, THEIR MUSICAL EXPERIENCES OF « COUPER DECALER » BROADENED BY TOURS TO EUROPE( FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN  AND BELGIUM).IN CONSEQUENCE, THEIR PERSPECTIVE BECAME MORE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL SINCE (2010) AND  « SERGES BEYNAUD » TOURED (USA) IN (2014)!(CHICAGO AND LOS ANGELES).

-DEFINTELY, THE « COUPER DECALER »  MUSICAL TREND REMAINS WITHOUT DOUBT TO SOME EXTENT A FOLLOW-UP OF THE LATE « MOSA MARCUS GARVEY » FAMOUS OBSERVATION THAT: »A PEOPLE WITHOUT A CULTURE ARE A PEOPLE WITHOUT A FUTURE!TODAY, INTHE WHOLE OF AFRICA, THE NEW AUTHENTIC PAN AFRICAN HIP HOP(COUPER DECALER) FLAG HAS BECOME AN ANTHEM FOR THE AFRICAN YOUTH, CULTURALLLY SPEAKING AND FOR THOSE LIVING IN THE DIASPORA.THAT’S TO SAY  » : »OUR PAN AFRICAN HERITAGE AND IDENTITY, WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE ANY MORE »!

( YVES T BOUAZO)( FROM THE BRITISH MONTHLY NEWSPAPER « THE PHOENIX NEWSPAPER »-« JUNE 2014 »)(800.000 READERS WORLDWIDE)(« IMAGE »: « COUPER DECALER » PERFORMER « SERGES BEYNAUD »)