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Reviews, essays, and critiques on music and film

Art & Culture Music & Film

Magical Kenya? A Decade of Young Auteur Cinema from Kenya

Despite many economic and political hurdles, the desire to tell stories about the complex realities of a postcolonial African society is unstoppable. Young Kenyan auteur cinema is striving for international screens.

by Valerie Thurner August 23, 2021June 11, 2022
Art & Culture Music & Film

Khaligraph Jones Unveils OdiNare Rap Challenge

The online rap challenge hopes to uplift talented rappers, to make Kenyan Hip Hop Great Again.

by Richard Oduor Oduku July 20, 2021November 17, 2021
Art & Culture Music & Film

Unmasking Musa Juma’s Benga Music

Although hailed as an astute Luo rumba artiste by music reviewers in newspapers and magazines, few are aware of the musician’s first compositions that were in pure paced benga and why he chose to do almost all his songs again with tunes of rumba.

by Barack Oduor July 8, 2021November 17, 2021
Art & Culture Music & Film

DMX, A Rap Legend, Dies at 50

In 1998 DMX released two albums in the same calendar year — both debuting at No.1 on the Billboard 2000, marking the start of a two-decade iconic career beset by struggles with drug addiction, legal troubles, and family troubles.

by Richard Oduor Oduku April 10, 2021November 17, 2021
Art & Culture Music & Film

Khaligraph Jones and Emerging Hip Hop Futures in Kenya

Kenya’s hip hop scene has been nothing but a graveyard of mixtapes which – while offering a glimpse at the spirit and experimentation – deny listeners the beauty of intention, coherence, and completeness.

by Richard Oduor Oduku April 4, 2021November 17, 2021
Art & Culture Music & Film

Ukoo Flani Mau Mau –The Disappearing Acts of a Hip Hop Dynasty

The hip hop group bequeathed Kenya a unique and identifiable hip hop soundscape, and their oeuvre remains the only most studied by urban music archaeologists, but what happened?

by Richard Oduor Oduku April 4, 2021November 17, 2021
Art & Culture Music & Film

Ogene, the Pulse of Mainstream Igbo Music

Four names: Zoro, Phyno, Flavour, KCee. Four installations on YouTube: Ogene, Achikolo, Gbo Gan Gbom, Ijele. These songs have garnered a mere 10 million...

by Olubunmi Familoni April 4, 2021November 17, 2021
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