Africa Is a Country

Music Break

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Music Break

By
Tom Devriendt

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South African DJ Hamma (former member of Brasse Vannie Kaap, these days “1/3rd of the dj collective known as Spindle Crew”) will soon drop a first solo-album called “Ctrl-Alt-Del, A non-responsive project.”*  The song in the video above, “Still got love,” is a first single. Rhymes are by Reason Lebaka a.k.a. Reasonthemass.

* With guest appearances by Jitsfinger, Tumi, Ej von Lyrik, HHP, Ben Sharpa, Zubz, and many more, I guess.–Tom Devriendt

Further Reading

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Repoliticizing a generation

Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.

Drip is temporary

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