“If you look at the hip-hop generation in Nigeria, of course they talk about local issues, but there is this branding of Africa in their music, if you go to Senegal it’s the same thing, you go to the United States it’s the same thing, they all have defined this new Africa that they even spell with a ‘K’,” the scholar and cultural theorist said.
“I think what is beautiful about it is that they are actually going back to the beginning of the struggle when people wanted to decolonize Africa and then the nation-state came and undermined that struggle… the young people are saying to really free Africa, we need to free Africa not only from Europeans but from nationalism as well,’’ Professor Manthia Diawara added.
