AfricaIs aCountry

Friday Music Break, N°10

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

Friday Music Break, N°10

By
Sean Jacobs

British based Nigerian rapper Modenine starts off our weekly Friday Music Break. Here’s four more.

No we’re not including the video just below just because Flint, Michigan-born Tunde Olaniran is half Nigerian. Yes we are. But he is also talented. (Detroit MC Miz Korona makes a feature appearance.)

Nigerian pop gets a French makeover

More pop rap from West Africa: Veteran (yes, they’re been around for a while now) rappers VIP, from Accra, are now flogging fantasy, cars and girls. Computer graphics come in handy.

From about a year ago: rapper Pharoahe Monch gets help from the Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble (or it’s the other way around).

See you Monday.

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.