Category: Films

• Hip Hop Events

  

  The Hip Hop African has collected a list of some of the hip hop events happening this year, in the U.S. and the U.K.

  Msia Kibona Clark

  April 21, 2023

  BBoys, Calls For Papers or Submissions, DJs, Films, Graffiti, Hip Hop Pioneers, Hip Hop Related Events, United States

  #HipHopEd, Baltimore museum of art, Breakin convention, Feature, HHYRA, hip hop anneversary, hip hop education center, Howard University, Kennedy Center, Rock the school bells, Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, virginia state university, virginia union university, Words Beats & Life

• Images from the African Hip Hop Film Series

  Images from the African Hip Hop Film Series at California State University Los Angeles from January to March 2013. The series featured films from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and Uganda; as well as guest speakers and emcees from the Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and the US. The images are featured on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kibona/sets/72157632976822110/

  Msia Kibona Clark

  June 2, 2013

  Africa, Diaspora Emcees, Films, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, United States

  california state university, california state university los angeles, emcees, film series, kalamashaka, kama, M3nsa, senegal, Waterflow

• African Hip Hop Film Series

  This winter California State University, Los Angeles is holding an African Hip Hop Film Series. The films feature hip hop scenes from all over Africa, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda. All films are free and open to the public. For more information contact Msia Clark @ mclark7@calstatela.edu.

  Msia Kibona Clark

  January 24, 2013

  Africa, canada, Diaspora Emcees, Films, France, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, United States

  awadi, democracy in dakar, diamonds in the rough, hip hop colony, kalamashaka, kama, saba saba, united states of africa, wageble

• Uganda’s Bouncing Cats: Hip hop with heart

  Bouncing Cats is a new documentary of one man’s attempt to bring breakdance to the war-torn children of Uganda. The man is Abraham ‘Abramz’ Tekya, an AIDS orphan from Kampala who has a passion for hip hop. Abramz set up Breakdance Project Uganda in 2006 and gives free breakdancing classes to kids in Gulu andRead…

  bigsmile715

  June 3, 2011

  Culture, Films, Uganda

  Abramz, b-boy, b-girl, Bouncing Cats, Breakdance, breakdancing

• Documentary ‘Ni Wakati’ Brings American, East African Artists Together

  

  By Msia Kibona Clark | 15 MARCH 2011 Los Angeles — The new documentary by Kenyan filmmakers Michael Wanguhu and Russell Kenya premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles this year. It proved to be a good year for Kenyan film, with eight films set in the country. Ni Wakati is a documentary thatRead…

  Msia Kibona Clark

  March 15, 2011

  Diaspora Emcees, Films, Kenya, Political Rap, Tanzania, United States

  Charlotte Oneal, dead prez, kalamashaka, kama, Kwanza Unit, M1, Michael Wanguhu, ni wakati, Oneals, Pete Oneal, Rhymson, umi, Zavara

• Film: Counting Headz: South Afrika’s Sistaz in Hip Hop

  Counting Headz: South Afrika’s Sistaz in Hip Hop is a documentary that was shot in Johannesburg and in Cape Town, South Africa. This film is a documentary about South African women and their struggle. Several rap artists in the film discuss their life and situation through music and Hip Hop. The film explained the obstaclesRead…

  deandreak

  March 2, 2011

  Films, Gender & Sexuality, South Africa, Women MCs

  counting headz, DJ Sistamatic