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This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip
hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in
a variety of ways that confront established social structures,
using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and
challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance, and graffiti, hip hop
is used to challenge social inequality and to push for social
change. The study looks across Africa and explores how hip hop is
being used in different places, spaces, and moments to foster
change. In this edited work, authors from a wide range of fields,
including history, sociology, African and African American studies,
and political science explore the transformative impact that hip
hop has had on African youth, who have in turn emerged to push for
social change on the continent. The powerful moment in which those
that want change decide to consciously and collectively take a
stand is rooted in an awareness that has much to do with time.
Therefore, the book centers on African hip hop around the context
of "it's time" for change, Ni Wakati.
This volume brings together top researchers, thinkers, and
activists from across disciplines to reflect on the study of
Africa. Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa
emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human
liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and
critical reflection on the politics of the production and
circulation of knowledge of Africa. Editors, Jennifer De Maio,
Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walter, organize the book around
three related key themes: international/transnational, humanistic,
and combined critical theory and practice perspectives. They argue
that each theme represents an important dimension of contemporary
African and African Diaspora Studies and re-centering these themes
within the discipline will help to advance the field. The diverse
contributors capture the goal and method for re-membering Africa by
reflecting and defining the field from various disciplines in order
to consider the history, the critical debates, and the challenges
to current views of the status and future direction of African
Studies.
This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip
hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in
a variety of ways that confront established social structures,
using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and
challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance, and graffiti, hip hop
is used to challenge social inequality and to push for social
change. The study looks across Africa and explores how hip hop is
being used in different places, spaces, and moments to foster
change. In this edited work, authors from a wide range of fields,
including history, sociology, African and African American studies,
and political science explore the transformative impact that hip
hop has had on African youth, who have in turn emerged to push for
social change on the continent. The powerful moment in which those
that want change decide to consciously and collectively take a
stand is rooted in an awareness that has much to do with time.
Therefore, the book centers on African hip hop around the context
of "it's time" for change, Ni Wakati.
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