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East Africa’s most celebrated festival, Sauti za Busara—an annual multi-day music and arts event held in the Swahili coastal trading town of East Africa’s Stone Town—was forced to cancel it’s 2016 edition. But the festival is back in its annual tradition guaranteeing a sonically diverse line-up and a festival ambitiously bigger in […]

African hip hop radio has reached another milestone in its existence. The show has been around almost as long as Africanhiphop.com itself; we did our first ‘show’ from an attic room – Maluka and J4 behind the minidisc deck with a cheap mic and a dj mixer. The stream was uploaded by

Ten years on, Black Friday’s popularity in South Africa has grown but it’s evolving. After a dip in mall traffic during the pandemic, 2023 saw a strong comeback. Data from Standard Bank and Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) shows record foot traffic and a surge in online purchases. “Black Friday really took off in 2018, and

Airlines across the globe may find some reprieve as Boeing resumes production of the 737 MAX, an aircraft model renowned for its efficiency. The shortage of aircraft has posed significant challenges for airlines, with African carriers such as Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways among those struggling to secure new jets amid the constrained market. The

Trump’s picks for secretary of state and national security adviser have fully supported the president-elect in casting doubt on European countries’ contributions to NATO. ADVERTISEMENT US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to appoint Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz as his secretary of state and national security adviser, according to preliminary reports that also suggest the

Gary Lineker is departing BBC‘s flagship soccer series “Match of the Day,” but has extended his contract with the broadcaster through the 2026 World Cup. Lineker, the broadcaster’s highest-paid presenter who has hosted the show since 1999, will bow out after the end of this season in May 2025. “I’m delighted to continue my long

The third and final installment of the Go-Betweens’ box set anthology series, G Stands for Go-Betweens, will be released on December 13. Spanning the 2000-2006 output of the beloved Australian indie-pop duo, the 4xLP, 7xCD set includes vinyl represses of their final three albums—The Friends of Rachel Worth, Bright Yellow Bright Orange, and Oceans Apart—plus

So we are forced to look beyond King Solomons mines, beyond oil fields and uranium deposits, closer to home, where the Beautiful ones are not yet born, apologies to Ngugi Wa Thiongo. Lo and behold, it would appear Africa breeds beautiful on a daily, so a young lady who challenged the former

After 25 monthly shows recorded at Red Light Radio in Amsterdam’s red light district, African hip hop radio continues as a non-stop online stream playing 100% hip hop from the motherland, without any ads or announcements, and (in the near future) with dedicated slots focusing on hip hop from a particular region

Ask just about any entrepreneur and they will tell you that of the many challenges they face, the most arduous are financial. Developing financial literacy, mastering financial planning and management, and securing the funding they need to grow their business are more often than not, Herculean feats. Due to the significant and persistent gender gap,