#Photojournal: Back To The City Festival
Back To The City is a hip-hop and street fashion festival held in Johannesburg’s Newtown Precinct
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Ts'eliso Monaheng is a writer and photographer based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Back To The City is a hip-hop and street fashion festival held in Johannesburg’s Newtown Precinct
With no Volume to his name, it seemed almost impossible to imagine South Africa-based self-proclaimed poet/emcee

Cape Town hip hop duo, Ill Skillz's music documents their musical joy-ride through the good, the bad, and the nostalgic.
Lesotho’s Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government Tom Thabane has found love: ‘It is
I discovered the three piece Afrikaans outfit Bittereinder through the internet and fell in love with

I’ve had Shane Cooper’s “Oscillations” in my possession for the past four months. From the onset, it
Few rappers on the continent have been as prolific as Sarkodie this year. The Ghanaian emcee

The Brother Moves On is not anti-ANC. Their new music rather speaks to the ideals of the liberation movement and asks if this is what we fought for.

Two years ago, South African rapper and former frontman of The Volume, Tumi Molekane (stagename: Tumi) released ‘POWA’,
We kick off our weekly installment of new music videos with OttawaParis-based Mélissa Laveaux riding the
I followed The Brother Moves On around South Africa once. True story, I even wrote about

Blitz the Ambassador talks to us about his new EP, 'The Warm Up,' ahead of his Brooklyn, NY, show tonight.
Flex Boogie, featured on this song by producer/radio deejay The Prince, is a Pretoria-based hip-hop artist

This edition of Weekend Music Break, number 48, curated by journalist and rapper T'seliso Monaheng, stops over in Senegal, Lesotho, Ghana and South Africa.

Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past
Art Melody, the Burkina Faso-based gruff-voiced emcee who also completes the high-octane duo Waga3000, came to
A harp hard-panned to either side of the speakers constantly loops while a flute sample pulsates

Here's what some South African artists make of the country's politics.

Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.

An interview with South African jazz bassist Shane Cooper.