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Boima Tucker

Boima Tucker is a music producer, DJ, writer, and cultural activist. He is the managing editor of Africa Is a Country, co-founder of Kondi Band and the founder of the INTL BLK record label.

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In sun and shadow

On the last episode of our sports and music series on Africa Is a Country Radio, we visit with Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon of the Eleven Named People podcast to preview the 2022 men’s World Cup football tournament.

Fight club

On this month’s Africa Is a Country Radio, we soundtrack traditional martial arts and combat sports across the African continent.

Take it to the house

On this month’s AIAC Radio, Boima celebrates all things basketball, looking at its historical relationships with music and race, then focusing on Africa’s biggest names in the sport.

An independence revue

This month on Africa Is a Country Radio, taking inspiration from the work of Chinua Achebe, we take a listen to the music of the post-independence era on the African continent.

Tram 83, a soundtrack

Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s debut novel is painted by the music of a nightclub in a fictional central African city-state. On this month’s AIAC Radio we imagined what it might sound like.