Blueprint Hakeem and Hip Hop in Bamenda
A celebration of Blueprint Hakeem, a Bamenda-based rapper who has maintained hip-hop's foundational values for eight years as an independent artist, even as Afropop trends dominate Cameroon's urban music landscape. The piece marks the release of his fourth studio album, Sitatunga, and situates him within a lineage of Bamenda hip-hop figures stretching back to the 1990s.
Staff · 4 December 2020
