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Twenty-one-year-old Assane Diop (“Azoupy” to his friends) describes himself according to his loves—for his parents, for his friends, and for making things, especially video projects. During summer 2010, Azoupy posted his latest creation to YouTube: a factually accurate, youth-oriented, mobile phone recorded video on reproductive health. The significance of this feat transcends the personal, although such engagement with digital production and distribution certainly increases Azoupy’s odds of becoming the “great computer graphics designer” he dreams of being. In fact, Azoupy’s participation in this reproductive health (RH) conversation has important implications for public health management in Azoupy’s native country of Senegal, the greater sub-Saharan Africa region, and throughout the world.
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Felt, L.J., Rideau, A. (2012). Our Voice: Public Health and Youths’ Communication For Social Change in Senegal. In: Ensor, M.O. (eds) African Childhoods. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024701_14
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