There’s a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West African artists making a living in the diaspora (especially in French-speaking hotbeds like Marseilles, Paris or Brussels), lyrically reaching back to the countries they’ve left. This collaboration between Togolese artist YaoBobby (rapping in Mina) and the prolific Fredy Massamba (singing […]
Tsofa: A documentary film about Congolese immigrants in Romania
March 27, 2013 By 6 Comments
Congolese (Brazzaville) filmmaker Rufin Mbou Mikima has uploaded* his latest documentary “Tsofa” to YouTube. The film tells the story of a group of Congolese men, many of them highly qualified university graduates who got offered a 600 euro/month job by a Romanian company to go and work as taxi drivers in Bucharest, the European country’s […]
Friday Bonus Music Break
July 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Above is how people keep warm in Johannesburg winters. And below is what you hope to bounce to during long summer nights.
Independence August
August 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Since we’ll be on break for a minute (details tomorrow) when the following central African countries celebrate their independence days, let’s do a quick roundup for Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, and Gabon. August 13, The Central African Republic is the home of Deep House DJ Boddhi Satva, who we talked about here before.
Music Break
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Swahili Cipher
January 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
Thomas Gesthuizen, known by followers of Africanhiphop.com as Juma4, has been running the number one African Hip Hop site and radio show in the world for a few years. The site, which has had various incarnations over time, has included a lively forum for African Hip Hop heads, as well as a radio show webcast […]
Music Break
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Children of Kinshasa
October 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you have seen the 1987 movie La Vie est Belle (Life is Rosy), you probably remember the aspiring musician Kourou (played by Papa Wemba) getting himself in some trouble in this scene. Here, in the latest single Enfants du pays taken from the album Crise de Nègre, Pitcho and his man DJ Aral masterfully […]
Review: ‘Héritage Congo’
July 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Guest Blogger, Tom DeVriendt Pitcho Womba Konga hails from Congo but moved to Belgium at the age of seven. As an artist he is a co-founder of Skinfama, a Brussels-based collective instigating urban hip-hop culture. You might know him from his 2003 solo album Regarde Comment or from that other beauty he dropped earlier this […]
