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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Msia Kibona Clark & Mickie Mwanzia Koster: Introduction ix
I: “Social Ills”: Coming from Behind the Microphone to Effect Reform in Africa
1. Caroline Mose
Hip Hop Halisi: Continuities of Heroism on the African Political Landscape 3
2. Sheba Lo
Building Our Nation: Senegalese Hip Hop Artists as Agents
of Social and Political Change 27
3. Amentahru Wahlrab
Speaking Truth to Power: Hip Hop and the African Awakening 49
4. Amkoullel L’enfant Peulh
Malian Hip Hop: Social Engagement through Music 65
II: “The Dusty Foot Philosopher”: Hip Hop Voices on Social Change in Africa
5. Malle Marxist
How Hip Hop Impacts Social Change in Africa 70
6. Mich Nyawalo
Redefining the Struggle: Remembering the Mau Mau through
Hip Hop Music 72
7. Shaheen Ariefdien & Rico Chapman
Hip Hop, Youth Activism, and the Dilemma of Colored Identity
in South Africa 94
8. Asligul Berktay
Beyond Y’en A Marre: Pikine’s Hip Hop Youth Say “Enough is Enough” and Pave the Way for Continous Social Change 112
9. Msia Kibona Clark
Gender Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees 144
10. Slim MC
Hip Hop and Social Change in Uganda 170
III: “Adjuma”: Hip Hop’s Transformation of the Urban Space in Africa
11. Mejah Mbuya
Tanzanian MCs vs. Social Discourse 174
12. Klara Boyer-Rossol
From the Great Island to the African Continent through the
Western World: Itineraries of a “Return to the Origins” through
Hip Hop Music in Madagascar (2000-2011) 178
13. John Idriss Lahai
The Musicscapes of a Country in Transition: Cultural Identity,
Youth Agency, the Emergent Hip Hop Culture, and the Quest
for Socio-Political Change in Sierra Leone 198
14. Katharina Greven
Hip Hop and Sheng in Nairobi: Creating Identity Markers and Expressing a Lifestyle 226
Afterword
Kamau Ngigi
Reflections on Ni Wakati: Hip Hop and Revolution 258
Appendix
Amkoullel L’enfant Peulh
Le Hip Hop malien ou l’engagement social a travers l’art 266
Index 270
About the Authors 278