
196 Article(s) by:
Boima Tucker
Boima Tucker is a musician and writer. He is the director of operations at Africa Is a Country and co-founder of the Kondi Band.


The Final Report

So then, what does Blackness in Brazil look like?

Boima’s Rio World Cup Diary: Fatigue (Day 12)

Boima’s Rio World Cup Diary: FIFA Standards
Day nine of our Rio correspondent’s World Cup diary wonders who the tournament is for and what the protesters demand.

Boima’s Rio World Cup Diary: Copa pra Quem? (Day 4)

Boima’s Rio World Cup Diary: Protests and Fan Fests (Day 2)

Boima’s Rio World Cup Diary: A tale of two copas (Day 1)

Toto’s Africa–The Disco Edition

The Sonic Geography of Cartagena
The strong local identity of Colombia’s most African big city is slowly being erased. But not all its artists, especially musicians, are giving up without a fight.
The Edutainment Industrial-Complex

Old Money’s mothership is here to save us all
The musical groups perhaps setting the pace for a new idea of liberation for people of African descent in the Americas.

The FBI’s Hustle
The contradictions of U.S.’s domestic and international policies manifested by its wars on drugs, terror, and the country’s Black communities.

Finding the Afro- in Brazil

Azonto soca in your area

L’Afrique Est Un Pays
Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, “L’Afrique Est Un Pays,” as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.

Boogie Down Nima in the Bronx
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
Chief Boima Interviews … Kae Sun

Joyful Melancholy
Alex Lomani is part of the Congolese diaspora, who has lived in the US, the DRC and South Africa. He has just released “Mélancolie Joyeuse,” a free EP on Bandcamp of four songs that each speak to his personal experience over the past couple of years.
