ABSTRACT
Pan-Africanism is the idea that people of African descent worldwide share historical, cultural, sociological, and ancestral heritage to the continent of Africa. Hip Hop is a cultural movement that first gained world prominence beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Different forms of the spoken word characterized Hip Hop, scratching, break dancing, graffiti, freestyling, rhyme and rhythm as well as musical hybridity. Glocalization, on the other hand, is the dual process by which a receiving culture indigenizes universal or external cultural influences. As Msia Kibona Clark’s detailed and enterprising work on African Hip-Hop demonstrates, African Hip-Hop practitioners are influenced by global Hip-Hop trends but have also advanced the genre in their unique way using homegrown ideas that reflect the lived realities of diverse communities in Africa. New York, with its high rise buildings, bright lights, and intoxicating culture is often rightly portrayed as a center of international activity in music, commerce, literature, art, and theater.
