• Africa Is a Country

• Kwesi Shaddai

• Africa Is a Country

• Salym Fayad

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

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.

• Sabelo Mkhabela

South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country's 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?

• Boima Tucker

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.

• Janette Yarwood

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.

• Boima Tucker

• Corinna Jentzsch

Dama do Bling is sometimes called a Lusophone Queen Latifah and Mozambican Lil Kim. The comparison doesn't always work.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

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.

• Megan Eardley

Can young Angolan activists inspired by Angola's underground rap scene take on a political elite that has ruled for decades?

• Amkelwa Mbekeni Kapanen

• Siddhartha Mitter

Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.

• Tom Devriendt

• Mikko Kapanen

Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?