Pan-Africanism Archives

Kendrick Lamar in Africa – Big Stepper’s Heritage Plug Mr. Morale kicked off his Rwanda performance to the full-throated African drums of his 2022 album opener, “United in Grief.” The crowd ecstatically sang along to “N95,” performed second in order of the tracklist. Making good on its rejection of digital civilization, the song was greeted with the life-size fabric placing Compton at the center of Africa, complemented with stage lighting, filtered overhead through multi-colored Agaseke baskets by Nyamirambo Women’s Centre and Kitenge fabrics by Dolf Benza and Stufish. By Mukoma Onai | February 2, 2024 Kendrick Lamar’s hip hop career is a never-ending attempt to go back home. Despite American novelist Thomas Wolfe’s singular warning, “You can’t go back home to your family, ...

Getting a Grip on Borderless Africa's Foot Soldiers During African Liberation Week, Africans Rising affiliates in 54 countries across the continent and its diaspora took initiatives to campaign for visa-free travel within Africa. Mukoma Onai caught up with the foot soldiers. By Mukoma Onai | May 28, 2025 Three hundred protesters trooped 5.2 km from Clerks Quarters to Molyko Omnisport Stadium in Buea, Cameroon, on May 27. Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, a network of Pan-African progressives, and We Build, its local affiliate, organised the morning procession as part of African Liberation Week (May 23-May 28) activities under the theme “Borderless Africa”. In the evening, a part of the crowd was back together at Iku at the foot of the volcanic Mongo ma Nde...

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Kendrick Lamar in Africa – Big Stepper’s Heritage Plug

Getting a Grip on Borderless Africa’s Foot Soldiers