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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.
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.
This Pan-African project is a thoughtful synthesis of the
various
hip-hop making practices in African communities across the
continent. It is highly
recommended for popular cultural scholars, hip-hop heads, and the
cultural
producers in hip-hop communities. Indeed, Clark’s book reads in an
accessible
manner which demonstrates her critical understanding of how
academic
knowledge production is often confined behind academic walls and
trapped
in dense academese rendering it inaccessible to the communities we
make
knowledge with….
This project cements Clark’s commitment to publicly engaged
scholarship and to
ensuring that writing about hip-hop is also part of the cultural
production of the
community.
*Contemporary Journal of African Studies*
“Remarkably well-conceived … [Clark] adeptly covers a wide range of
issues in African hip-hop—its role in political protest, the rise
of feminist MCs and the effects of migration on cultural
production—without forgoing depth in favor of breadth.…There [are]
no bling or fast cars here but the stories within shine bright,
illuminating the variegated and effusive scenes across Africa.“
*Songlines*
“What Clark does especially well is creating a dialogue in each
chapter, giving…insight into how each factor, such as language, is
approached differently across different parts of the continent, but
then also how they come into dialogue with each other and present
different [viewpoints] to the rest of the world. It’s an incredibly
rich and dense text, just packed with information, but also very
accessible and easy to understand.”
*Scratched Vinyl*
“This is a very important [study]. To say that I learned a lot
about the artists and their music … and the intricacies of hip hop
music and culture would be an understatement; I came away having
totally enhanced my own pop culture credibility. I have heard Msia
Clark speak to her work, and she brings to the story of today’s
hip-hop storytellers the passion of the historian who must give
voice to a phenomenon, a movement, a future that we must recognize
and appreciate.”
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