My barber loves these tunes
Hipsters Don't Dance 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for October 2014.
Music
South African Hip Hop Series: Producer Brian Soko
Brian Soko is not a happy man! Not only is he having to deal with the
The Dookoom Debate
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?
South African Hip Hop Series: Video Profile On Rapper Sam Turpin
“The thing about Joburg,” observes rapper and producer Sam Turpin “it’s kind of on the scale
Dookoom Rises Up
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.
South African Hip Hop Series: Thoughts On The Late Rapper Mizchif
I was home alone one Friday night around 2001 watching, as was tradition, one of the
#SAHipHop2014: Rapper Flex Boogie Live At Fingo Festival
As member of the hip-hop quartet Ba4za, Hakeem Lesolang presided over one of the most fertile
Is DJ Lewis’s “Stop Ebola” his “Grippe Aviaire” pt. 2?
DJ Lewis recently released a “Stop Ebola” song and video that reminds me of “Grippe Aviaire”, a song
A museum in the middle of the street
Three towering moko jumbies stroll up behind the stage, as if on cue, dressed in suits
Practicing, Not Preaching
“The metaphysical properties of hip-hop, the metaphors, helped me imagine a better world."
Transgender in Botswana
For a number of reasons, the LGBTQ community in Botswana experiences less severe social and institutional backlash than elsewhere in Africa.
The Fingo Revolution
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.
Bam bam riddim
Hipster's Don't Dance's 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for September 2014.
Hip Hop Religion
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.
The Contemporary Mark of Assata Shakur
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.
‘This Ewe Boy’
New video for ‘Hope,’ by Ghanaian rapper Abladzo Kwame, off his EP ‘This Ewe Boy.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEO2zhHys2I&feature=youtu.be
The Redemption Trope in South African Cinema
The politics of three prominent South African films: the classics 'Come Back Africa,' late-1980s 'Mapantsula' and Oscar winner 'Tsotsi.'
It’s time to drop the “world music” label
The progressive rock of The Brother Moves On is a great case study for why the category of "world music" is at best dated, and at worst problematic.
The World Carnival Sound
Once a month Hipsters Don't Dance will bless Africa Is a Country with their top 5 World Carnival tunes.
Umlilo is young, black and queer in South Africa
The artist Umlilo documents their metamorphosis from a tortured outsider to a fully realized divine being.