• Sean Henry Jacobs

Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.

• Beza Tesfaye

There's something amazing about not being able to understand lyrics but still being able to comprehend what a song means.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?

• Christopher J. Lee

Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.

• Africa Is a Country

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipsters Don't Dance 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for October 2014.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Herman Wasserman

What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Dylan Valley

A Cape Town hip hop group causes a huge stir with its music video "Larney Jou Poes" (roughly translated: Boss, your cunt.) depicting an uprising by farmworkers.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Boima Tucker

• Paula Akugizibwe

• Lindokuhle Nkosi

“The metaphysical properties of hip-hop, the metaphors, helped me imagine a better world."

• Natasha Mmonatau

For a number of reasons, the LGBTQ community in Botswana experiences less severe social and institutional backlash than elsewhere in Africa.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

How an an annual, independently-run series of events founded in 2011 in the Eastern Cape have propelled the genre in that South African province.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipster's Don't Dance's 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for September 2014.

• Kwanele Sosibo

While hip-hop can still connect us to our higher selves, its mainstream adaptations reveal that it is inherently human and not free from flaws.

• Kwesi Shaddai

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.