# Sister Fa

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{{short description|Senegalese singer and activist}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| image             = Sister fa.jpg
| caption           = Sister Fa in 2010
| birth_name        = Fatou Diatta
| birth_date        = {{Birth year and age|1982}}
| birth_place       = [Dakar](/source/Dakar), Senegal
| genre             = Rap
| years_active      = 
}}

'''Sister Fa''' (real name '''Fatou Diatta''', born 1982 in [Dakar](/source/Dakar), Senegal)<ref name="guardian">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/16/sister-fa-rapper-genital-cutting-senegal | title=Sister Fa: African rapper with a cause | work=The Guardian | date=16 February 2013 | accessdate=30 March 2016 | author=Mossman, Kate}}</ref> is a Senegalese rapper and anti-[female genital mutilation](/source/female_genital_mutilation) (FGM) activist.

==Career==
Diatta began her career as a rapper in 2000, when she made her first demo tape.<ref name=bio>{{cite web | url=http://www.sisterfa.com/biography/ | title=Biography | work=Sisterfa.com | accessdate=30 March 2016 | archive-date=18 July 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718125405/http://www.sisterfa.com/biography/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The following year, she performed at the Senegal Hip Hop Awards.<ref name=alj>{{cite web | url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/10/fgm-senegal-sister-fa-151015113021192.html | title=Waging a lyrical war against FGM | work=Al Jazeera | date=15 October 2015 | accessdate=30 March 2016 | author=van der Zee, Renate}}</ref> In 2005, she released her first album, ''Hip Hop Yaw Law Fal''.<ref name=alj/> In 2008, she toured Senegal to raise awareness of the problem of FGM.<ref name=alj/> In 2009, she released her international debut album ''Sarabah: Tales From the Flipside of Paradise''.<ref name=bio/> In 2011, ''Sarabah'', a documentary about Diatta's tour ''Education Sans Excision'' (French for ''Education without Cutting''), premiered at the human rights festival [Movies That Matter](/source/Movies_That_Matter).<ref name=guardian/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://sarabahdocumentary.com/film/ | title=About Sarabah | accessdate=30 March 2016}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
''Sarabah: Tales From the Flipside of Paradise'' received a lukewarm review from Jon Lusk of the [BBC](/source/BBC), who wrote that "too much of the album consists of fairly pedestrian or annoyingly sing-songy melodies that echo playground chants (like Poum Poum Pa) or seem transparently aimed at the ring tone market."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/ngrg | title=Sarabah Tales From the Flipside of Paradise Review | work=BBC Music | accessdate=30 March 2016 | author=Lusk, Jon}}</ref> In ''[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)'', Mark Hudson gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and wrote that Diatta "pits her gutsy verbalising against exquisite traditional melodies on this well-crafted debut."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/5562175/Sister-Fa-Sarabah-CD-review.html | title=Sister Fa: Sarabah, CD review | work=The Telegraph | date=22 July 2009 | accessdate=30 March 2016 | author=Hudson, Mark}}</ref> Rick Anderson reviewed the album for [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic), concluding that "It's rare that a hip-hop artist balances lightness, seriousness, funk, and message as successfully as this one does -- especially the first time out."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/sarabah-tales-from-the-flipside-of-paradise-mr0001037128 | title=Sarabah Review | work=Allmusic | accessdate=30 March 2016 | author=Anderson, Rick}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Diatta was subjected to FGM when she was a child.<ref name=alj/> She met Lucas May, an Austrian [ethologist](/source/Ethology), in 2005; they married within a week.<ref name=alj/> In March 2006, she and her husband moved to [Berlin](/source/Berlin).<ref name=bio/> 

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Category:Senegalese hip-hop musicians
Category:1982 births
Category:Musicians from Dakar
Category:Living people
Category:Senegalese activists against female genital mutilation
Category:Senegalese women rappers
Category:Senegalese emigrants to Germany
Category:Violence against women in Senegal

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