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Africa is a Radio: Epsiode #5
Africa is a Radio went on break last month along with Africa is a Country,…
L’Afrique Est Un Pays
This past October was the Dutty Artz crew’s 6 year anniversary, so we decided to celebrate…
Shameless Self-Promotion: Chief Boima at The Apollo
This Saturday I’ll be djing between acts at The Apollo Theater’s Africa Now! Concert. Yesterday,…
Tendai Maraire (of Shabazz Palaces) breaks down new mixtape
“This is an African Hip-Hop movement.” Seattle-based Zimbabwean Tendai Maraire aka Fly guy Dai (one half…
Party Business
With the help of Bunce Booking and Africa is a Country, Dutty Artz presents the…
Diplo in the dock
Chief Boima was invited to OPEN ARTI in Milan recently to talk about art and politics and to DJ. In the video of the event (above), Boima is joined by fellow DJ, Venus X (profiled here in The New York Times). AIAC gets some shout-outs. A lot of things get referenced: music and race, how we listen to music, Shakira, cumbia, hard style, LMFAO, David Guerra, Rihanna, etcetera. But the elephant in the room is Diplo, the famous DJ and tastemaker.
Shameless Self-Promotion: Chief Boima’s Many Identities
If you’re unfamiliar with my musical work, OkayAfrica.com recently did a profile on me for their web…
Shameless Self-Promotion
So I released an album this week, and shot my first ever music video for…
10 African Albums of 2011
Tinariwen Tassili Mali Quote: “I go quietly to pay Mizgawa a little visit.” FOKN Bois…