Tensions are simmering between the civil rights and hip-hop generations. Can they close the gap?

By Vanessa E. Jones, Globe Staff | January 16, 2008
The furor over the name of rapper Nas’s forthcoming CD perfectly illustrates the divide between the civil rights generation and the younger hip-hop generation, which has benefited from the social […]

 
Skeptics always suspected that big-mouthed German rappers, keen to imitate their edgy American role models, were talking the talk without walking the walk. But now the German version of gangsta rap is starting to look a whole lot realer after a rapper is shot in Berlin. 

German rappers are fond of bragging about how hard life […]

By HAMADOU TIDIANE SY, NATION CorrespondentLast updated: 52 minutes agoDAKAR, Tuesday
If he had wished to remain a hero in Senegal, as Nelson Mandela is across the continent, Mr Abdoulaye Wade, the octogenarian Senegalese president, could have followed the path of the old South African leader and put an end to his active political career in […]