His case demonstrates how the knowledge and expertise migrants gather through international career mobility can be converted into assets at an individual, national, and international level.
Mdunyelwa merits recognition not only for the regard she won from fellow players but also for her activism as a community music educator and advocate for South African jazz.
In June 2020, three months after South Africa entered the first of a series of hard lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID, the country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa described men’s violence against women as a “second pandemic”
On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw the now legendary Back To School jam in the recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in The Bronx, New York.
On the evening of Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc attended a block party in the South Bronx.
Ever since August 1973, hip-hop artists have turned to Afrofuturism – a mix of science fiction, politics, and liberating fantasy – to inform their lyrics and their look.
The cultural and indigenous music activist, who laughed as often as she played, was loved by everyone she met.
To effectively use hip-hop in the classroom, it pays to understand that hip-hop is more than just a music form.
Recently, Logos Olori – a Nigerian Afrobeats artist – released a video with supposedly Muslim men dancing to his song Jaye Lo in front of a mosque.
Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
