Songs produced behind bars earn convict "street cred" in Burkina Faso 12 hours ago The Ouagadougou prison and correctional facility known as MACO is home to Burkina Faso’s latest musical find – Roland Tapsoba, AKA ‘Rolbi’. Twenty-seven-year-old Tapsoba is serving a 5-year jail term for fraud. In this cramped, overcrowded prison cell, Tapsoba can often be found writing song lyrics, as his cell mates help him out by singing the songs. There are more than 2000 inmates here wi...
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