Ogina: On Hip-Hop Genre in Oromo Music

Ogina: On Hip-Hop Genre in Oromo Music

Ogina - Dec 8, 2008 - In this issue of Ogina, we ask some of those questions as well as explore different means to tell our stories. We'll have examples of hip-hop music with pieces by Boonaa Mohammed and his group Kings of Kush, as well as Epidemic the Virus along his collective, O'z Up, and a spoken word piece by Meymuna Hussein. In our interview with Boonaa and Epidemic, we discuss some of those questions as well as many others. And, finally, Qeerransoo Biyyaa's essay analyses how the dissemination of hip hop creates a transnational Oromo youth. Finally, this issue also contains the visual art of Lennsa Yadata, poetry from Ayantu Gemeda and a photo-article about this summer's MegaFest by Steven Thomas. Read More.