Shifting climate views with rap and collective action
In Kinshasa, a young activist wants to change people's attitudes to trash and the climate crisis and strengthen local communities.…
Blaqbonez: Carrying the touch of Nigerian rap
Blaqbonez: Carrying the touch of Nigerian rap…
Police failure to save girl sparks anger in Romania
A 15-year-old girl called the police three times to report she was being held against her will by a man who had raped her in Romania. Police took 19 hours to reach…
Pastor bags 12 years imprisonment for raping 14-year-old congregant
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison, a pastor, Princewill Basil for raping a 14-year-old girl.…
Mukwege: ‘We must shift shame from victim to rapist’
Denis Mukwege, along with Nadia Murad, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for trying to stop the use of sexual violence in warfare in his native Congo. DW asked him how he…
MI Abaga: Enter Yxng DxnzL The rap messiah
When Jude Abaga hit the scene with his Crowd Mentality single in 2006, Nigerian hip-hop heads welcomed the freshness of his idea, the audacity of his witty lyrics tightly packed in bars…
Why will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith don’t say they’re ‘Married’
Don't Say They're 'Married' Labels like “husband” and “wife” are meaningless to them. They prefer “life partners.” Will Smith, to Rap Radar Jada Pinkett Smith, to 'Sway in the Morning' The two…
Nigeria’s fading femcee’s
Eva Alordiah, arguably one of Nigeria's finest lyricists, tweeted what seemed to be a normal rap artist’s penchant for the grandiose, only this time, there was a tacit undercurrent of the gender…
Rapper in a warzone
With bombings and massacres occurring all too often in the DRC, these rappers are risking their lives to tell their story.…
Rapper DMX sentenced to one year in prison for tax fraud
Rap artist and actor DMX was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty in a federal case accusing him of dodging $1.7 million in taxes.…