CURRENT ISSUE
Volume 6 • Number 3 • 2013Guest Editor: Msia Kibona Clark, assistant professor of Pan African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles and 2013/2014 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
On the Cover: Political activist and hip hop artist Thiat from the Senegalese hip hop group Keur Gui, the group that helped found the Y’an a Marre (Enough is Enough) movement that lead to protests calling for political reforms in Senegal in 2011(photo by Msia Kibona Clark).
● Representing Africa! Trends in Contemporary African Hip Hop
by guest editor Msia Kibona Clark
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● The Struggle for Hip Hop Authenticity and Against Commercialization in Tanzania
by Msia Kibona Clark
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● Urban Guerrilla Poetry: The Movement Y’ en a Marre and the Socio-Political Influences of Hip Hop in Senegal
by Marame Gueye
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● “Chant Down the System ‘till Babylon Falls”: The Political Dimensions of Underground Hip Hop and Urban Grooves in Zimbabwe
by Katja Kellerer
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● From Compton to Cape Town: Black(faceless)ness and the Appropriation of Gangsta Rap in Die Antwoord's “Fok Julle Naaiers”
by Lanisa Kitchiner
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●The Hip Hop Revolution in Kenya: Ukoo Flani Mau Mau, Youth Politics and Memory, 1990-2012
by Mickie Mwanzia Koster
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● Swag' and 'cred': Representing Hip-hop in the African City
by Caroline Mose
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● Hip Hop Music as a Youth Medium for Cultural Struggle in Zanzibar
by Shani Omari
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● Troubling the Trope of “Rapper as Modern Griot”
by Damon Sajnani
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● “The Blueprint: The Gift and The Curse” of American Hip Hop Culture for Nigeria’s Millennial Youth
by Stephanie Shonekan
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