See also: Doumbia

Tiken Jah Fakoly , of its true name Doumbia Foamed Fakoly, is a singer of Reggae of the Ivory Coast.

Career

Doumbia Moussa Fakoly was born the June 23rd 1968 with Odienné in the North-West from the Ivory Coast. Resulting from a family of griots, Fakoly discovers rather early the music Reggae and assembles its first group, Djelys , in 1987. It is thus by the scene that it succeeds in little by little being made known at the regional level then national.

Very concerned by the social and political evolution of its country, Tiken Jah will not be long in writing incisive texts on the electoral situation which makes following the disappearance of Houphouët-Boigny in 1993, which was worth a great popularity within youth to him. It is in 1998 that it goes up for the first time on scene in Europe, with Paris.

Tiken Jah Fakoly known as to play a music “to wake up the consciences” as it explained during various interviews. Its music speaks about many injustices which the population of its country of origin undergoes, but more especially of the African people. It is thus a Reggae near to the African people which currently suffer for many different reasons of which oppression and misery.

By “music which wakes up the consciences”, Tiken Jah Fakoly understands to explain that the people which live under oppression are the human ones as well as the others, that they have same the human rights as all being and than they have their cultures and their values. Its music is committed against the seizure that the Occident, particularly the France, has on the richnesses of most of the Black Continent, in particular with the Gabon, the Congo, an also political oppression which results in the control of the Heads of African States via the French lobbies which, even if it means to cause wars, are démènent for their interests. This proximity with the people, his aspirations and his disappointments, fact of Tiken Jah Fakoly an artist listened by much and that as well in Europe as in Africa.

Since 2003, Tiken Jah Fakoli lives exiled with the Mali following death threats: close relations of the president Laurent Gbagbo assassinated several of his/her friends.

He is for the cancellation of the debt of the African countries, and approached the movement Altermondialiste. He implied himself in the demonstrations anti G8.

In 2006, Pierpoljak invites it on a duet for its new album. The song is called Sisi .

Political commitment of the songs

Tiken Jah Fakoly denounces colonialism and néo-colonization:

“ After the abolition of the Slavery

They created the Colonisation When the solution was found,

They created the Coopération

As this situation is denounced.

They created the Mondialisation.

And without explaining the Universalization,

It is Babylon which exploits us ”

It is also sensitive to the problem of the sales of weapons in Africa, the plundering of its richnesses and the Western supports for the dictatorship:

“ the political France Africa It is blaguer to kill '' They sell to us arm While we fight, They plunder our richnesses And says surprised being to always see Africa in war. They burned the Congo Ignited the Angola . '' They guarantee the dictatorship All that to starve us. ”

The expression " blaguer to kill " mean, according to the author: “One us joke wants to say that one makes as if us were loved and yet another side us are massacred, one kills to us. For example the French Army , come supposedly to protect the international community, is in Ivory Coast simply to protect the French interests. ”

The topic of Babylon, which, in the culture reggae and rastafari, indicates the occident materialist, is also a recurrent theme of the songs of Tiken Jah Fakoly:

“ In this world where the system returned poor impotent and dumb one

Yes everywhere in this world, the law decided by the outlaws

This world of capital where morality is not capital any more

I am tired, oh my god

Delivers your children of the hands of Babylon ”

Fakoly denounces also the politicians of Africa “accessory to Babylon to swindle us”.

The singer is also worried by the corrupted African modes: in the song the sweeping one swept , it is refers to the military putsch in Ivory Coast of the general Robert Gueï, who declared: “We came to sweep the house”. Gueï was driven out by demonstrations in 2000, after its refusal to recognize the electoral victory of its adversary Laurent Gbagbo.

Other songs as One very included/understood evoke also the corruption and the exploitation of the population by the politicians in Africa.

Anecdotes

  • In 2005, different opposed the organizers of the International festival of Music of Bamako (FIMBA) and Tiken Jah Fakoly. The organizers of the festival reproached the singer for having refused to occur on scene, while the singer claimed the enclosure of the Stage where the concert was initially envisaged. The singer gained in call.

  • At the time of its round in France in 2007 the benefit in its concerts are transferred with the association which it directs (Association Toloni) for the creation of schools in Ivory Coast.

Discography

Participation

  • 2006 : African rebel music
  • It sings with Dub Incorporation on the piece Life of their album Diversité .
  • It sings with Bernard Lavilliers on the piece Question of skin
  • It sings with Steel Pulse on the piece African Holocaust (2004) on the album of the same name
  • It sings with Riké on the piece Réveillez you
  • It sings with Pierpoljak on the piece If of the album of Pierpoljak I will wound anybody
  • It takes part in the album Electric griot Land (2006) of Ba Cissoko.
  • It sings with Idir in a song of its last album.

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