Dakar booms with life
The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."
The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."
Africa is a Radio episode 6 opens up with a transnational blend, combining remixes of Dotorado
The Black American activist's relevance for today's generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Africa is a Radio went on break last month along with Africa is a Country, so
When the M23 militia took control of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in Eastern Congo,
An interview with hip hop scholar, Adam Haupt, about hip hop pioneers P.O.C., the viral rappers Die Antwoord and the state of contemporary South African hip-hop.
South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country's 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?
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.
A campaign in Senegal wants to put public pressure on the government to follow-though on criminal investigations in order to get justice for victims of violence and torture.
It’s quite a weekend for New York’s prodigal child. Hip-Hop, that burst of youthful energy that was
Dama do Bling is sometimes called a Lusophone Queen Latifah and Mozambican Lil Kim. The comparison doesn't always work.
So Detroit rapper, Danny Brown (remember his breakout mixtape “XXX,” his video for “Grown Up” and a
An idea of what's going down in Lesotho with the emcees whom I think will be making a considerable amount of noise in 2013.
Can young Angolan activists inspired by Angola's underground rap scene take on a political elite that has ruled for decades?
Zimbabwe is a paradox. A country riddled with contradictions. While the often unpalatable and sometimes hair-raising
Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.
This music video for Big Frizzle’s ‘All Black Everything’, produced by London-based media house GlobalFaction made
Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
The text that comes with Agata Pietron’s photographs of youth in Kiwanja and Rutshuru (North Kivu,
I’m taking over the Friday music break this week. First up, the prolific Azonto producer E.L.