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Docta says people were confused by his work, because at the time it was more artistic.
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Docta says the true role of graffiti artists in Senegal is to use their work as a trampoline of communication between urban art and the population.
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Docta says graffiti artists are actually very social people, but they are also humble and simple individuals who really just want to share and are always learning.
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Docta's work embodies the gamut of hip hop culture - from rapping, DJ'ing and dancing, to designing his own private street clothes label and founding Africa's only international graffiti festival, Festigraff.
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Docta says most Senegalese have an aversion to going to hospitals, because they think the medical staff is rude or the drugs are too expensive.
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Docta says graffiti artists can encourage the population and doctors to come together in the street, a neutral space where locals feel less intimidated.
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Docta says they are all fighting for the population, and while doing this they are also fighting for themselves.
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Docta, whose real name is Amadou Lamine Ngom, is known as the "pioneer of graffiti art" in Senegal.
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Docta is combining graffiti art with health awareness, painting murals in some of Dakar's poorest neighborhoods with messages in Wolof, such as "health has no price."
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Docta says that while in the beginning the goal of graffiti was to revolt, now he realizes he has to bring something to the population.
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