Overview: About the AHRP

The main objective of the African Hip Hop Project is to use the tools of popular culture to empower African youth and amplify their voices and messages expressed through African Hip Hop globally— messages of hope, political and economic freedom, education, women’s rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and other social issues affecting youth.

In Africa, Hip Hop is changing and recreating the culture and lives of youth, as it introduces new means of communication, education, empowerment, activism, and entertainment. The fastest-growing and most dominant form of youth expression across the world, Hip Hop has a special significance in the African context, where the future path of the continent lies in the development of its youth. Taking into consideration Africa's rapid urbanization and the youth-skewed population distribution, Hip Hop becomes an important means of communicating with and understanding this group.

Therefore, the overarching goal of the project is to explore methods of addressing African youth issues and to capitalize on this medium to cultivate understanding and promote education, responsibility and leadership.