AfricaIs aCountry

Still Hip Hop

Africa Is a Country Podcast
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Still Hip Hop

By
Sean Jacobs

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Hip hop now has its own museums, honors shows on basic cable, and rap beats drive car commercials.  So I am surprised when good hip hop happens again, whether from trusted sources or from artists you’ll never hear from on the radio.  Like Jay Electronica recent “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace.” If you missed his “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”–I prefer the Mos Def remix for the latter–google it and take a listen.

— Sean Jacobs

Further Reading

The people want to breathe

In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself.

After Paul Biya

Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion.

Leapfrogging literacy?

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.