At a rally of pounding drums and ululating women, star Malawian rapper Fredokiss urged young people to vote in next month’s elections despite their disenchantment with the government and the choice of main presidential candidates, all aged over 70.

More than half of the population of the impoverished central African country is under 35 and the turnout on September 16 of young voters –- who made up 54 percent of registered voters in the 2019 election — is seen as a potential game-changer.

“Young people have the numbers, we have the voice,” the 37-year-old rapper-turned-politician told AFP on the sidelines of the recent event in the southern city of Blantyre, a part-rally and part-street party held in a swirl of the red colours of his United Transformation Movement (UTM).

“We are the ones

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