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“half of y’all won’t make it” –Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” In the face of creeping disfranchisement, unbridled corporate power, growing poverty, an expanding police state, 2.3 million people...

Daniel Metcalfe’s Blue Dahlia, Black Gold imaginatively captures the unfulfilled desires and brute realities of Angola suggested in its title. It is a welcome addition to a growing journalistic and travel literature on the country. Weaving through...

Abstract The postmodern exchanges enabled through the traffic of information, identities and subjectives in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) have forged a ‘pact’ with Nigerian hip hop to produce a youth cultural reality that is both transitional...

Photo by Zethu Gqola “It is ROCKING The Daisies. Not HIP-HOPPING The Daisies.” A phrase that was repeatedly uttered in vehement defence of everything held sacred by the whitewashed supporters of Rocking The Daisies – namely flower crowns, indie rock...

Hip-hop artist Blitz ‘The Ambassador’s’ musical journey led him under the shadow of Lady Liberty to New York a decade ago. He was imbued with the sounds of afrobeat and the highlife music indigenous to his native Ghana, and inspired by the brazen voices...