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Mar 2022
20m 20s

Pour l’amour du rap (For the Love of Rap...

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About this episode

Ouafa Mameche didn’t speak French when she first arrived in France at the age of seven. But her passion for rap music led her to love the language and find her place in her adopted homeland.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3C46bKW.

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