Sister Fa

After contributing to several albums produced by other musicians, Sister Fa's debut album "HipHop Yaw La Fal", which translates as "HipHop Chose You", was released in mid-2005 in Senegal. Since then she has been a guest on a number of radio and television programmes, her videos have been in the standard rotation on music video channels, and she has received the prize for "Best Newcomer of the Year" at the Senegalese Hiphop Awards. Fatou Mandiang Diatta was born into a middle class family in the Casamance region in southern Senegal. Now better known as Sister Fa, she lives in Berlin. In her home country, she continues to be involved in the movement to stop genital mutilation in young women and girls, which is officially against the law in Senegal but continues to be widespread.