"El Poder de la Música: Un Rapero de Mozambique Motiva a la Juventud a Levantarse"

“Pueblo en el Poder,” o “People in Power,” del rapero Azagaia, se ha convertido en el himno no oficial de las protestas por unas elecciones polémicas.

The young men huddled around a parked car, bobbing to a beat that thumped from the speakers. It was an energetic and catchy rap ballad — one that, these days, is instantly recognizable on the streets of Mozambique.

“Povo no Poder! Povo no Poder!” the men sang along, repeating a refrain that also was emblazoned on the black T-shirts they wore in Marracuene, a town about an hour outside of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital.