One of the best live acts I saw at WOMAD last year. While Bazawule is Ghanaian and fully brings a lot of that into his music, it's worth noting he's been US and primarily NYC based for the past 10 years. His band is from all over, and he sings about bigger things than just Ghana, so I guess I feel that `Ghanaian Hip-Hop' doesn't quite capture it.
Because the consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else. (Lucas 1988, On the Mechanics of Economic Development)
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I used to be an Economist in South Sudan. Hence the silly subtitle. Roving Bandit is a reference to Mancur Olson, not because I think I'm some kind of badass. I'm also a big fan of experiments.
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One of the best live acts I saw at WOMAD last year. While Bazawule is Ghanaian and fully brings a lot of that into his music, it's worth noting he's been US and primarily NYC based for the past 10 years. His band is from all over, and he sings about bigger things than just Ghana, so I guess I feel that `Ghanaian Hip-Hop' doesn't quite capture it.
African diaspora hip-hop?
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