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There’s a couple of related things you might like to check out:

Patrick Neate’s book ‘Where You’re At’
[http://www.patrickneate.com/page.asp?p=hiphop]

and the slightly bizarre CD ‘Speaking In Tongues’, which has a bunch of hip-hop from around the globe (not all good) [http://www.shazam.com/music/portal/sp/s/media-type/html/user/anon/page/album/productid/61741/Fabe/Speaking+In+Tongues.html]

I totally sympathize. Last winter I produced this show for Open Source on the globalization of hip-hop culture. As is true in the US, I found that hip-hop was a really rich medium for understanding the complex social, political and cultural dimensions of a place. I was lucky enough to find “translators” who could help contextualize the music vis a vis youth culture, imperialism, globalization, slum life, and a host of other things it really takes to understand why people are making this music in every corner of the globe, but a lot of the music I’ve stumbled across is still largely impenetrable because of language barriers. When I get a sec later today I’ll pass back some of the cool African hip-hop podcasts I stumbled across…

best,
Robin

The BBC’s DJ EDU has a great weekly Afican hiphop show that I listen to regularly:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/djedu/

Just in case.

Great article about global hip-hop and thanks for the mention of dotsub. We just finished subtitling into 67 languages a film about Muhammad Yunus called “Banker to the Poor” in conjunction with Ashoka and his recent Nobel Peace Prize. Many of the languages were African dialects mentioned in your article – you can see the list of languages at

http://dotsub.com/yunus/banker

when the film starts playing hit the pull down menu at the top of the player to see the list of languages. You can also see the film with our current player embedded at the Ashoka site, which is how I think it should look at Global Voices, at

http://ashoka.org/100translations

scroll down to “Banker to the Poor” – and once the film is playing, hit the up/down arrow at the bottom of the player to see it in all the languages.

Let’s do your hip hop project as a starter.

Happy New year

Michael

I’ve been checking out global hip hop on YouTube for a while now. There are some socially aware rappers in Israel/Palestine and Holland you might be interested in:

- “Who’s the Terrorist?” by Da Arab MCs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OgSVXjNLFgo

Trio raps in Arabic, Hebrew and English.

- “Kut Marokkanen” by Raymzter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bIZzDZmFDs0

Dutch Moroccan rapper talking about a Dutch politicians use of a slur about Moroccans.

- “Fuk Jou” by The Opposites
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rIa480N9F8I

Surinamese and White dutch rap duo throwing slurs at each other while being portrayed as conjoined twins. A “we need to live together” message, completely with a whole lot of swearing.

And then there’s always Chinatown’s own Notorious MSG (Funky Buddha, rest in peace):

- “Straight Out of Canton” by the Notorious MSG
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BWitHlctipE

regarding Kamini’s video and reference to Jean-Pierre Pernault, i would assume it’s because Pernault is famous for making news coverage in far remote – Godforsaken little towns in France. His daily newscast is famous to go into “la france profonde”.

my 100 Cfa francs on the question :)
Lydie