Msia Kibona Clark is assistant professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. She has been writing about and photographing African hip-hop culture since 2009.
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Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
By Msia Kibona Clark
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Foreword by Quentin Williams
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Afterword by Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa’s biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African realities. A tribute to a genre and its artists, Hip-Hop in Africa details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa and pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions.