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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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African hip hop
Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence.
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AKA (rapper)
Kiernan Jarryd Forbes (born 28 January 1988), known by his stage name AKA, is a South African hip hop artist and record producer.
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Akon
Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), better known as Akon, is an American singer, songwriter, businessman, record producer and actor of Senegalese descent.
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Algeria
Algeria (الجزائر, familary Algerian Arabic الدزاير; ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ; Dzayer; Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast.
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Alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses the wide range of styles of hip hop that are not typically identified as mainstream.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.
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Anti-apartheid
Anti-apartheid may refer to any opposition to apartheid, the 1948–94 racial policy of the South African government; in particular.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Arab world
The Arab world (العالم العربي; formally: Arab homeland, الوطن العربي), also known as the Arab nation (الأمة العربية) or the Arab states, currently consists of the 22 Arab countries of the Arab League.
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Asumadu
Solomon Asumadu Mensah (born 13 September 1993), well known as Asumadu then called Young So, is a Ghanaian rapper, entrepreneur, television presenter, radio presenter and disc jockey.
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Ball J
Albert Ayeh-Hanson (born November 8, 1984), known by his stage name Ball J or Ball J Beat, is a Ghanaian rapper, sound engineer, record producer and entrepreneur from Accra.
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Bataka Squad
Bataka Squad (formerly Bataka Underground) is a Ugandan hip hop group.
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Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.
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BET
Black Entertainment Television (BET, stylised as BET★) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom.
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Blaaze
Blaaze (born Lakshmi Narasimha Maharaja Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman on 15 October 1975 in Chennai, India) is a rap artist and a popular playback singer in Indian films.
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Black Noise (group)
Black Noise is a hip-hop crew hailing from the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa, which gained street popularity, primarily after the group chose to reach out to Cape Flats youth with the inclusion of members from Mitchell's Plain.
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Black Vulcanite
Black Vulcanite is an award-winning rap group based in Windhoek, Namibia.
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Blackface
Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.
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Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana (Lefatshe la Botswana), is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa.
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Breakdancing
Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.
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Buk Bak
Buk Bak was a Ghanaian musical group composed of Prince Bright, Isaac Shoetan and Ronny Coaches.
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Cameroon
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Cashless Society (band)
Cashless Society sometimes The Hard Cashless Society or THC Society are a Southern African hip hop crew from Gaborone, Botswana and Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Cassper Nyovest
Refiloe Maele Phoolo (born 16 December 1990), professionally known as Cassper Nyovest, is a South African recording artist and record producer.
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Castro (musician)
Theophilus Tagoe (born 1 May 1982, disappeared 6 July 2014), popularly known as Castro or Castro Under Fire, was a Ghanaian hiplife recording artist and musician.
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Chef 187
Kondwani Kaira, better known by his stage name Chef 187, is a Zambian hip hop musician and Proflight ambassador from the Copperbelt Province signed under Alpha Entertainments Music.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chilu Lemba
Chilu Lemba (born August 27, 1975) is a Zambian born and South African based radio and television presenter, voice over artist and musician.
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Chris Akinyemi
Olakitan Christopher Akinyemi, better known by his stage name Chris Akinyemi (Sometimes shortened to ChrisA) is a Nigerian-American musician.
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Cobhams Asuquo
Cobhams Asuquo (Efik pronunciation) is a Nigerian musician, producer, and songwriter.
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Compact Cassette
The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
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Compact disc
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.
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Conakry
Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea.
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Congolese rumba
Congolese rumba, also known as Rumba Lingala, is a popular genre of dance music that originated in the Congo basin during the 1940s, with strong similarities to Cuban son.
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Czech hip hop
The hip hop subculture in the Czech Republic emerged after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
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Daara J
Daara J (pronounced, which means "the school" in Wolof) are a Senegalese rap duet that consists of N'Dongo D and Faada Freddy.
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Daddy Zemus
Anthony Mbinga Kafunya (1 May 1968 – 3 January 2001), known professionally as Daddy Zemus, was a Zambian musician and songwriter.
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Darey
Dare Art Alade – popularly known as Darey – is a Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter, and Idol series judge.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.
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Didier Awadi
Didier Awadi is a Senegalese rapper and the most visible figure of Francophone West African Hip Hop.
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Die Antwoord
Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for "The Answer") is a South African hip hop group formed in Cape Town in 2008.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Draztik
David Balsher (born 6 January), better known by his stage name Draztik, is a record producer, composer and rapper.
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Duncan Mighty
Duncan Wene Mighty Okechukwu (born 28 October 1983), simply known as Duncan Mighty, is a Nigerian musician, singer, and music producer from Obio-Akpor, Rivers State.
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Eedris Abdulkareem
Eedris Abdulkareem is a Nigerian hip hop singer.
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EL (rapper)
Elom Adablah (born 28 June 1986), better known by his stage name E.L, is a Ghanaian Afrobeat Musician, rapper, singer, producer and pulse racing performer.
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ELDee
Lanre Dabiri (born May 23, 1977), better known by his stage name Eldee, stylized as eLDee, is a former Nigerian-American rapper, singer, and record producer but now an IT Consultant based in the United States He is an original member of the band Trybesmen, which was started in 1998 with rappers KB and Freestyle.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Ewe language
Ewe (Èʋe or Èʋegbe) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana by approximately 6–7 million people as either the first or second language.
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Faze (musician)
Chibuzor Oji, better known by his stage name Faze, is a Nigerian musician and actor.
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Fela Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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French hip hop
French hip hop is the hip hop music style which was developed in French-speaking countries.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Ga language
Ga is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, in and around the capital Accra.
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Gal Level
Gal Level is an award-winning R&B female duo from Windhoek, Namibia, made up of Daphne Willibard (born 1 April 1981) and Frieda Haindaka (born 1 February 1984).
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Gambia Radio & Television Service
The Gambia Radio & Television Service is the national broadcaster of the West African state of the Gambia.
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Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Gh hiphop
Ghana Hip hop or GH hip-hop music genre is a subculture and art movement which developed in Ghana during the late 1990s.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Goma
Goma is the capital city of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Goodwill ambassador
A goodwill ambassador is a person who advocates for a specific cause (e.g. a country or an organisation) on the basis of their notability.
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Graffiti
Graffiti (plural of graffito: "a graffito", but "these graffiti") are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted, typically illicitly, on a wall or other surface, often within public view.
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Griot
A griot, jali or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.
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Hausa language
Hausa (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 27 million people, and as a second language by another 20 million.
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Highlife
Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana early in the 20th century.
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Hip hop
Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Hiplife
Hiplife is a Ghanaian musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.
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Ice Prince
Panshak Zamani (born 30 October 1986), better known by his stage name Ice Prince, is a Nigerian hip hop recording artist and actor.
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Ivorian hip hop
Hip hop is a major part of the popular music of Côte d'Ivoire, and has been fused with many of the country's native styles, such as zouglou.
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Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.
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Jayso
Paul "Jayso" Nuamah Donkor (born June 1, 1983) is a Ghanaian rapper, record producer, singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch (31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.
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Jesse Jagz
Jesse Garba Abaga (born 10 August 1984), popularly known as Jesse Jagz, is a Nigerian hip hop recording artist.
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Jovi (musician)
Ndukong Godlove Nfor (born 24 October 1983), known by his stage name Jovi, is a Cameroonian rapper, songwriter, sound engineer, entrepreneur, and record producer (under his producer pseudonym Le Monstre).
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K'naan
Keinan Abdi Warsame better known by his stage name K'naan, is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.
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Kae Sun
Kae Sun is the stage name of Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr, a Ghanaian-born Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and artist.
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Kamikaze
, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks.
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Katutura
Katutura (Otjiherero for The place where people do not want to live) is a township of Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia.
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Kaysha
Edward Mokolo Jr., better known by stage name Kaysha, (born in Kinshasa on January 22, 1974) is a singer/rapper and producer.
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Keko (rapper)
Keko (born Jocelyne Tracey Keko) is a Ugandan rapper who took over the music scene in Africa in 2011.
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Kigali
Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda.
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Kinshasa
Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville (Léopoldville or Dutch)) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Kora Awards
The KORA All Africa Music Awards are music awards given annually for musical achievement in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Kwaito
Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 1990s.
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Kwassa kwassa
Kwassa kwassa (or kwasa kwasa) is a dance created by Jeannora who was a mechanic in Kinshasa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that started in the 1980s where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips.
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Kwaw Kese
Emmanuel Botway, known by his stage name Kwaw Kese, also popularly called Abodam (craziness), is a Ghanaian hiplife artist.
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Kwesta
Senzo Mfundo Vilakazi (born 11 August 1988), better known by his stage name Kwesta, is a South African rapper and songwriter.
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L-Tido
Thato Madonsela (born January 30, 1982), better known by his stage name L-Tido, is a South African hip hop recording artist from Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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Les Nubians
Les Nubians is a French musical duo composed of sisters Hélène and Célia Faussart from Paris, France.
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Lumix Da Don
Lumix Da Don, a.k.a Patrick Lumumba (February 21, 1978 – July 13, 2015), was an underground Ugandan rapper, record producer, founder and CEO of Valley Curve Recordz.
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M.I
Jude Abaga (born 4 October 1981), better known by his stage name M.I Abaga, is a Nigerian hip hop recording artist and record producer.
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Macky 2
Mulaza Kaira (born 10 October 1984), also known by the stage names of Macky II, Macky 2, MK, Dj Bugar, and Flava Boy, is a Zambian hip hop musician, singer, and producer.
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Madagascar
Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.
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Makerere University
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Malagasy people
The Malagasy (Malgache) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the island and country of Madagascar.
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Mbalax
Mbalax (or Mbalakh) is the national popular dance music of Senegal and the Gambia.
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MC Solaar
Claude M'Barali MC Solaar ((born March 5, 1969) is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin. He is one of France's most famous and influential hip hop artists. MC Solaar is known for his complex lyrics, which rely on word play, lyricism, and inquiry. In the English-speaking world, Solaar was signed by London-based acid jazz record label Talkin' Loud and recorded with British group Urban Species and the late rapper Guru, who was a member of the critically acclaimed New York-based rap group Gang Starr. Solaar has since released eight studio albums and one live album.
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Minstrel
A minstrel was a medieval European entertainer.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music of Ghana
There are many styles of traditional and modern music of Ghana, due to Ghana's cosmopolitan geographic position on the African continent.
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Music of Guinea
Guinea is a West African nation, composed of several ethnic groups.
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Music of Ivory Coast
The music of Ivory Coast includes music genres of many ethnic communities, often characterised by vocal polyphony especially among the Baoulé, talking drums especially among the Nzema people and by the characteristic polyrhythms found in rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Mzbel
Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah (born 26 December 1979), popularly known as Mzbel, is a Ghanaian Hiplife artist and one of the most popular singers in Accra, Ghana.
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Naeto C
Naetochukwu Chikwe, stage name Naeto C, is a Nigerian rapper, Afrobeat artist and record producer.
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Nasty C
Nsikayesizwe David Junior Ngcobo (born 11 February 1997), better known by his stage name Nasty C, is a South African rapper, songwriter and record producer.
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National Arts Council of Zambia
The National Arts Council of Zambia is a newly formed Zambian organization which attempts to foster the arts in Zambia.
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Negrissim'
Negrissim' is a hip hop crew from Cameroon formerly based in Dakar, Senegal, despite their members travelling regularly between Europe and Africa.
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Niamey
Niamey is the capital and largest city of the West African country Niger.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Nigerians
Nigerians or Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria.
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Nikki Laoye
Oyenike Laoye-Oturu, professionally known as Nikki Laoye, is a Nigerian recording artist, singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional actress, renowned for her eclectic musical expressions and captivating stage performances.
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Nollywood
Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry.
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Okyeame Kwame
Kwame Nsiah-Apau (born 17 April 1976), known by his stage name Okyeame Kwame and nicknamed Rap Doctor, is a Ghanaian musician, songwriter, creative director and entrepreneur.
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Otjiwarongo
Otjiwarongo (beautiful place) is a city of 28,000 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.
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Ovambo language
The Ovambo language, Oshiwambo, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.
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P-Square
P-Square were a Nigerian R&B duo of identical twin brothers Peter Okoye and Paul Okoye.
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Passi
Passi is a French hip hop artist who became famous in the mid-1990s with the group Ministère AMER, which included himself and Stomy Bugsy.
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Plantashun Boiz
Plantashun Boiz were a Nigerian hiphop and R&B music group.
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Popkomm
Popkomm was an international trade show for the music and entertainment business during the 1990s and 2000s, and also integrated a congress and festival.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Positive Black Soul
Positive Black Soul (also known as PBS) is a hip hop group based in Dakar, Senegal, one of the first such collectives in the country.
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Proverb
A proverb (from proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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Raï
Raï (راي), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s.
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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale generally referred to by its acronym RFI, is a French public radio service that broadcasts in Paris and all over the world.
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Radio Rwanda
Radio Rwanda (est. 1961) is a radio station of the Rwandan Broadcasting Agency (RBA), a public broadcaster that also owns Rwandan Television (RTV), Magic FM and other public radio stations.
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Rapping
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.
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Real Elements
The Real Elements (aka Real Elementz) is a Malawian hip-hop band that gained notoriety in the 1990s and 2000s in Malawi.
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Record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.
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Reggie Rockstone
Reggie Rockstone (Reginald Yaw Asante Ossei, "the Godfather of Hiplife") is a rapper of Ghanaian descent.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Riky Rick
Rikhado Makhado, better known by his stage name Riky Rick, is a South African rapper who dabbles in fashion and has helped a lot of SoundCloud artists.
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Ruggedman
Michael Ugochukwu Stephens, stage name Ruggedman, born on September 20 (year unidentified) in Ohafia, Abia State, is a Nigerian rapper.
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Rwanda
Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.
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Sabar
The sabar, which originated with the Serer people, is a traditional drum from Senegal (also played in the Gambia).
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Samini
Emmanuel Andrews Samini (born 22 December 1981 in Accra, Ghana), known by his stage name Samini (formerly as Batman Samini), is a Ghanaian Reggae and Dancehall recording artiste from Wa, Ghana.
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Sarkodie (rapper)
Michael Owusu Addo, professionally known as Sarkodie, is a Ghanaian hip hop recording artist and entrepreneur from Tema.
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Sasha P
Sasha P (born Anthonia Yetunde Alabi on 21 May 1983), also known as the First Lady of Nigerian Hip Hop, is a Nigerian female rapper, musician, businesswoman, lawyer and motivational speaker.
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Senegal
Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.
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Social movement
A social movement is a type of group action.
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Soukous
Soukous (from French secouer, "to shake") is a popular genre of dance music from the Congo Basin.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Stanley Enow
Stanley Ebai Enow is a Cameroonian rapper, radio and TV presenter, and voice actor.
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Styl-Plus
The group Styl-Plus (originally STYL) is a Nigerian gospel and pop musical group / quartet.
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Swakopmund
Swakopmund (German for "Mouth of the Swakop") is a city on the coast of western Namibia, west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road.
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Sway (musician)
Derek Andrew Safo (born 5 September 1982), better known by his stage name Sway or Sway DaSafo, is an English musician of Ghanaian descent.
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Swing music
Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Tay Grin
Limbani Kalilani (born June 15, 1984) is a Malawian hip hop artist better known by his stage name Tay Grin.
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The Gambia
No description.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.
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The Kill Point
The Kill Point is an American television series that follows a group of U.S. Marines recently returned from serving in Iraq as they come together to pull off a major bank heist of a Three Rivers Bank branch in Pittsburgh.
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known professionally as The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper.
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Tic Tac (musician)
Nana Kwaku Okyere Duah aka Tic Tac is an award-winning hiplife musician originally from Kwamo, a suburb in the Ashanti Region in Ghana.
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Tinny (musician)
Nii Addo Quaynor (born 19 January 1982), better known by his stage name Tinny, is a Ghanaian Rapper.
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Township (South Africa)
In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refer to the often underdeveloped segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Indians, Africans and Coloureds.
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Tuks Senganga
Tumelo Kepadisa (born 2 May 1981), simply known as Tuks or Tuks Senganga is a South African Motswako rapper born in Mafikeng, in the former homeland of the Bophuthatswana.
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Tumi Molekane
Tumi Molekane (born 16 August 1981) is a South African rapper and poet.
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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names Tupac, 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.
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TVR
TVR is an independent British manufacturer of high-end sports cars.
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Twi
Twi (pronounced, or Akan Kasa) is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by about 6–9 million Ashanti people as a first and second language.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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VVIP (hip hop group)
VVIP, formerly known as VIP (Vision In Progress) is a Ghanaian Hiplife music group.
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Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay (Afrikaans Walvisbaai, German Walfischbucht or Walfischbai, all meaning "Whale Bay") is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Windhoek
Windhoek (Windhuk; ǀAiǁgams; Otjomuise) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia.
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Wolof language
Wolof is a language of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, and the native language of the Wolof people.
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Ya Kid K
Ya Kid K (born Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi, 26 January 1972) is a Congolese-Belgian hip hop artist.
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Yo-pop
Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale.
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Zaire
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire (République du Zaïre), was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa.
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Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
The 'Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation' (ZNBC) is a Zambian state-owned television and radio station.
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Zeus (musician)
Game Goabaone Bantsi (born 22 July 1986), better known by his stage name Zeus, is a Motswana hip-hop artist, MC and businessman.
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Zola (musician)
Bonginkosi "Zola" Dlamini (born 24 April 1977 in Soweto, Johannesburg) is a South African musician, poet, actor and presenter.
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Zouglou
Zouglou is a dance oriented style of music originated from Côte d'Ivoire during the mid-1990s.
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4x4 (Music Group)
4x4 is a Ghanaian hip hop musical group formed in 2000 by Captain Planet (Sylvanus Dodji Jeoffrey) and Coded, formerly Abortion (Raphael Edem Avornyo) with the help of Ronnie Coches and Bright Bling Sparkles (Buk Bak).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_hip_hop
