The Africanhiphop.com site serves the goal of unifying everybody who's inspired by hip hop and by the cultures of Africa and of African origins. The info at Africanhiphop.com is provided mostly by the artists themselves, and edited by the Africanhiphop.com web team in Amsterdam, Holland.
Africanhiphop.com is a project of the African Hip Hop Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in the Netherlands which is run by a group of young volunteers from different countries and backgrounds. The foundation board consists of pioneers in African hip hop from South Africa, Uganda and Holland. Our editorial team is made up of young media professionals from Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Cape Verde and Angola, while we work with freelancers from all over the continent.
The Africanhiphop.com website is 100 percent independent, uncensored and its core activities are run without financial or material support from any organization or funder.
Since the early nineties we have been collecting info on the development of hip hop in Africa, and we will publish any available info at this spot. So if you have any material, let us know and we will put it up.
Hali Halisi - Classic documentary on hip hop in Tanzania
If you have been frequenting this site over the past 7 years, you may have read about 'Hali Halisi - Rap as an alternative medium', a low-budget documentary on Tanzanian hip hop which we shot back in 1999 and released on VHS in 2000 through Madunia/Scherpenzeel foundation. Some people ordered copies and even more people mailed but never got a copy as we didn't have a proper distribution system in place. In 2004 we transferred the film to DVD, and it got picked up by several film festivals including H2O International Film Festival in New York which awarded it 'best short documentary' - the award was presented in the presence of pioneers like Afrika Bambaataa, Roxanne Shante and Kool Herc.
A time before Bongo Flava: revolutionary spirit
Seven years after the making, the documentary is a bit of a time warp into an era where Tanzanian hip hop was still mostly about a message, where the happy assembly line Bongo flava beats had not yet found their way into the charts and where commercialism was almost non existent. The popular artists at the time were strong believers in the coercing power of their lyrics, and they had a bit of revolutionary spirit about them. Their species has been marginalized in today's media scape; some emcees have quit the game while others have moved on to produce more commercial work.
'Hali Halisi' was among the first films to talk about the power of hip hop as a medium, even though artists have been using their art to educate the community since hip hop started out in the 1970's. This angle has since been recognized by NGO's, filmmakers and others exploring African hip hop. Director Martin Meulenberg initially wanted to make a film about 'muziki wa dansi', the Swahili pop music appreciated by the older generation of Tanzanians (parents to the hip hop generation). The muziki wa dansi artists used their lyrics in a similar way to 'edutain' the crowd.
To give everyone a chance to see this film, we have uploaded it - in three parts - to Youtube. Watch it, while keeping in mind that the film makers were constrained by budget, time (10 days of filming in Dar & Zanzibar) and the amount of artists that could be put in front of the camera. While some important names at the time are not present (such as Hard Blasters and Kwanza Unit), the film shows the majority of names that mattered at the time, including Gangwe Mobb (Inspekta Haruna), GWM (D-Chief & KR), Bantu Pound (Soggy Doggy, Snaz-T), Mr II aka 2Proud aka Sugu, Deplowmatz (Dola Soul aka Balozi & Saigon), Ras Pompidou, Abbas & Baraka (Underground Souls), X Plastaz & Fortune Tellers (Arusha), Sos B, P-Funk (Producer), Bad Gear (Coca Cola popstars), Mack D, Taji Liundi (ex Clouds/Mawingu), Cool Para (Zanzibar) and Sebastian Maganga (Uhuru FM).
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