Hip Hop In Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers w/ Msia Kibona Clark

Africa World Now Project · Jul 14, 2018 · 1h 1m

Hip hop, as a cultural product of Africa and African descendant peoples is a rich field of inquiry. Hip hop as a viable platform that highlights calls for social change is the life-giving breath of hip hop. Nevertheless, a viable work that dives deep into the sociopolitical and philosophical foundations of hip hop as a human expression of African futures is still yet to be written. Most work on hip hop is still grasping with it at its surface level. Still justifying its existence. Resisting the clutches of the ever-evolving attempts of racial capitalism to control it, hip hop as the…