DJ Arafat, whose real name was Ange Didier Huon, had a massive audience in French-speaking western and central African countries [File: Issof Sanogo/AFP] DJ Arafat, a singer from Ivory Coast with a huge following in francophone Africa, has died after a road accident in Abidjan, the state broadcaster RTI has said. "Death of artist DJ Arafat ... today at 8am as a result of a road accident overnight," the broadcaster tweeted on Monday. According to messages and pictures circulating on social media, he had been driving a motorbike and smashed into a car. Critically injured, the singer, 33, was taken to an Abidjan hospital, where he later died. Advertisement "We are all in shock," Ickx Fontaine, an Ivorian producer and specialist in hip-hop told the AFP news agency. "He was a real singer and a drummer ... he gave a new breath of life to coupe-decale." Later on Monday, around 1,000 fans gathered in front of the hospital in Abidjan's Cocody suburb where the s...