hip hop
The BET Awards do Africa
What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?
Parisian Africa
Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.
Shoutout Banlieue
Number 8 in our series, Paris Is a Continent, showcasing the music of the French capital, is about bragging rights and one song.
The Nordic Connection
Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.