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Museum of the African Diaspora

February 24 - February 24, 2013

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685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Free Day | Authors in Conversation: The Hiplife in Ghana with Halifu Osumare Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop explores Accra, Ghana as a site of as a site of a whole new form of world music called hiplife. Dr. Halifu Osumare will present a brief slide presentation on Ghana and the history of hip-hop in that West African country, and then share excerpts from the book. The Hiplife in Ghana investigates hiplife music not merely as an adaptation of hip-hop, but as a revision of Ghana’s own century-old popular music known globally as highlife. Documentary filmmaker Eli Jacob-Fantauzzi will join Dr. Osumare and will show a clip of his film on hiplife called HomeGrown: Hiplife in Ghana (http://hiplifemovie.com/) with his Clenched Productions. Halifu Osumare is Associate Professor and Director of African American & African Studies at UC Davis. She has been involved with dance and black popular culture internationally for over thirty years as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, administrator and scholar. Having taught and researched in Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria, her work has spanned traditional African performance and ritual to contemporary African American dance and performance. This day is made possible by ScholarShare -- a program of TIAA-CREF FREE Admission.