As we wrap up “Planet Hip Hop,” our summer series celebrating 50 years of hip-hop music around the world, H. Samy Alim returns to talk with host Marco Werman about the next 50 years. Alim is an anthropology professor and the director of the Hip Hop Initiative at UCLA.
The process of colonialism dispossessed African farmers and converted them into either landless workers, unpaid labor tenants or the rural unemployed, writes Vijay Prashad.
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
In March, United Nations Secretary-General António Gu
Afr(Ind)ian Fiction: Reckoning with belonging
6 May 2021
Othnell Mangoma Moyo pictured on stage as part of Hope Masike’s band. He collaborates with Kinsmen as part of Afr(ind)ian Fiction. (Anatol Bogendorfer)
‘This music,” says Dhruv Sodha, “is owned by all of us equally. It’s four stories that come together, like a gathering around a fire.”
The sitar player is describing the sounds created as part of the Afr(ind)ian Fiction project: a collaboration between the musicians of South African Music Awards-nominated local improvising trio Kinsmen and Zimbabwean multi-instrumentalist, Othnell Mangoma Moyo. Kinsmen comprises Sodha, tabla player Shailesh Pillay and saxophonist Muhammad Dawjee.