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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Murray Forman Foreword ix
P. Khalil Saucier Introduction. Hip-Hop Culture in Red, Black an Green xiii
Part One
African Noise: Mapping African Hip-Hop from the East, West, and South
Chapter 1 Catherine Appert
Rappin’ Griots: Producing the Local in Senegalese Hip-Hop 3
Chapter 2 Daniel Künzler
Rapping against the lack of change: Rap music in Mali and Burkina Faso 23
Chapter 3 Jenny F. MBaye
Hip-Hop Political Production in West Africa: AURA and Its Extraordinary Stories of Poto-Poto Children 51
Chapter 4 Caroline Mose
Jua Call-Justice: Navigating the ‘Mainstream-Underground’ dichotomy in Kenyan Hip-Hop culture 69
Chapter 5 Remi Warner
Colouring the Cape Problem Space: A Hip-Hop Identity of Passions 105
Part Two
“We Are Africans”: African Hip-Hop beyond the Motherland
Chapter 6 Harry Nii Koney Odamtten
Hip-Hop Speaks, Hip-Life Answers: Global African Music 147
Chapter 7 J. Griffith Rollefson
Le Cauchemar de la France: Blackara’s Postcolonial Hip-Hop Critique in the City of Light 179
Part Three
The Rap-Up: Conversations and Interviews
Chapter 8 Shaheen Ariefdien & Marlon Burgess
Putting Two Heads Together: A Cross-Generational Conversation about Hip-Hop in a Changing South Africa 219
Chapter 9 Katrina Daly Thompson
Bongo Flava, Hip-hop and “Local Maasai Flavors”: Interviews with X Plastaz 253
Part Four
“Who Shot Ya?” African Hip-Hop in Focus
Chapter 10 Noelle Theard
Photos from South Africa 301
Chapter 11 Magee McIlvaine
Photos from “Here” and “There” 311
Contributors 319
Index 325