January 30th, 2008 | by Benjamin Herson | published in African Hip-Hop, Global Hip-Hop Blog
By ANITA POWELL – 15 hours agoADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — In a former life, Emmanuel Jal turned a gun against his government as a conscripted rebel soldier in his native Sudan.These days, the 28-year-old is a hip-hop artist who gave up his machine gun for a microphone, but keeps his aim on the Sudanese […]
January 23rd, 2008 | by Benjamin Herson | published in African Hip-Hop
New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS21 January 2008 Posted to the web 22 January 2008
By Jude KatendeKampala MANY local music pundits have labeled hip-hop a dead genre in Uganda. However, the big turn up of youths at Lugogo indoor stadium last Friday challenged this notion.
In a bid to support the genre, MTN Uganda has started the anual […]
January 20th, 2008 | by Benjamin Herson | published in African Hip-Hop
NEWS19 January 2008 Posted to the web 20 January 2008
By Tim Kamuzu BandaNairobi The pool of hip-hop artistes in Kenya barely grows. In fact, for a long time, it has always been Abbas, Mwafrika, Kantai and a few other names that have consistently featured.
And this is despite the fact that the genre has one […]
