‘Arab’ spring in Angola? Police respond with arrests and violence
For a while we were wondering which Sub-Saharan countries would follow after the Arab Spring civil uprisings changed the political map of northern Africa, but exactly one year after the Egyptian revolution started…
Sefyu – L’insecurité, second single from the album Oui je le suis
Sefyu, the Senegalese-French emcee (and a succesful soccer player in a previous life), released his new album ‘Oui je le suis’ in October 2011. After a first single, the uptempo ‘Turbo’ (with a…
Y’en A Marre & Elections in Senegal – African hip hop radio January 2012
Protests in Dakar, January 31 (AP Photo) In the first African hip hop radio show of 2012, and less than a week before Africanhiphop.com’s 15th anniversary online, dj Threesixty and presenters Amal &…
African hip hop radio – December 2011 with Vieira
The last African hip hop radio show of the year 2011 was a 360 degree look around the landscape of music from Africa and the diaspora with Amal and Dj Threesixty. Starting out…
Xuman & Cee Pee – Li lumu doon
In this new video by Xuman (Senegal) & Cee Pee (Mauritania), politicians and the current president Abdoulaye Wade in particular are called out about the issues that are plaguing the nation: ‘The country…
K’naan & Nas – Nothing to lose
When we last spoke to K’naan he was in the middle of the World Cup tour, about to play a show for a Coca-Cola promotional event in the Ajax Arena stadium in Amsterdam….
Zorbam All Stars – Wa wa wa
Wendy, Lestat, Maat, Keza, Ekomy join on a single track under the name of Zorbam All Stars. The track is dedicated to the ‘Pantheres‘ of Gabon, the national soccer team who are about…
Native Tongues: an African Hip-Hop Reader
In the past fifteen years we have come across a growing number of students and scholars researching the hip hop scene in an African country of choice – even the Africanhiphop.com website resulted…
Blakk Rasta – Gaddafi
Blakk Rasta, the radio personality and reggae artist from Ghana, got continent wide fame with his tribute to Obama, released during the USA presidential election campaign in 2008. In 2009 he visited the…
Radio Vaults: December 2009 – Africanhiphopradio Live Sessions
On the Dutch edition of African hip hop radio we have had an impressive number of artists phoning in and visiting the studio. The latter often impressed us with a little live session….
