It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Zingah brings together a new wave of South African hip hop talent on 'Yonda Way Vol. 1', a collaborative project designed to ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...

Nairobi — UNTIL ABOUT A DECADE ago, the South African hip hop music scene was exclusively a male domain. But the artistes' gender has been changing and with it the content of the music. More female ...

Renowned South African hip-hop artist, Nasty C has argued that Afrobeats and Amapiano are better genres of music than Hip-hop. He said Afrobeats and Amapiano are more “original” in terms of live ...