About this site
The Africanhiphop.com site serves the goal of unifying everybody who’s inspired by hip hop and by the cultures of Africa and of African origins. The info at Africanhiphop.com is provided by a team of correspondents across Africa and the diaspora, and sometimes by the artists themselves.

Africanhiphop.com is a project of the African Hip Hop Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in the Netherlands which is run by a group of young volunteers from different countries and backgrounds. The foundation board consists of pioneers in African hip hop from South Africa, Uganda and Holland. Our editorial team is made up of young media professionals from Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Cape Verde and Angola, while we work with freelancers from all over the continent.

The Africanhiphop.com website is 100 percent independent, uncensored and its core activities are run without financial or material support from any organization or funder.

Since the early nineties we have been collecting info on the development of hip hop in Africa, and we will publish any available info at this spot. So if you have any material, let us know and we will put it up. You can get in touch by using the contact form.

History
The Africanhiphop.com website, formerly named Rumba-Kali Home of African Hip Hop, was initiated in February 1997 as a platform for information and discussion on hip hop from the African continent (click here to see a copy of the page as it appeared back then). At the time no websites were publishing about the spread of hiphop across Africa. Only the world tours of South African hip hop crew POC, and PBS from Senegal had introduced the world to a little part of the lively urban music culture of African countries. Since there was little communication among hip hop artists from various countries, for example between Senegal and South Africa, the Rumba-Kali site was a first step towards interlocal ties.

In the first years after the site went online, a lot happened. Hip Hop in Africa - as in the rest of the world - really blew up. African groups released cd’s on the world market and PBS even toured in South Africa. Different Pan African hip hop festival were held.
The Rumba-Kali web site attracted many visitors, even people who never heard of Africans doing hip hop before were showing love. A lot of peeps from the USA felt good about the motherland connection: they thought it natural that this art form, part of whose roots are in Africa, has now found its way ‘back home’. Attracting over 70.000 unique visitors per month, the site is now functioning as the prime source of info on African hiphop. Our news stories have been used by international media such as BBC, BET, the Source and others.

Used by hiphop fans, artists and researchers alike, our site has been much imitated. There are now many more African hiphop websites but Africanhiphop.com remains the starting point and final destination for anyone wanting to know more about hiphop in the Motherland.