African hip hop archive
The African hip hop archive project is an experimental research based on a data-set collected in different African countries and in the African diaspora between 1993 and 2020. The Africanhiphop.com archive consists of thousands of music cassettes and other multimedia and texts related to the development of hip-hop culture across the African continent and its diaspora between 1996 and now. The collection is located in Amsterdam and Zanzibar. A small part of the archive has been published online since 1997. The project team will add new data. The archive traces the transformation of hip-hop from a medium of communication and education in its infancy (1993-2003) to a multi-million selling commercial scene.
In 2021 a trial was initiated with data collected in Zanzibar (Tanzania), a stepping stone towards a more expansive research and archival project involving data from other countries. The archive is a continuous resource for research.