For nearly two decades, Johannesburg has been home to one of Africa’s most vibrant celebrations of hip-hop culture, the Back to the City Festival. Since 2007, it has grown from a vision sketched in a ...

Against the backdrop of rising youth challenges in South Africa, cultural custodian Osmic Menoe is positioning the Resistance Festival as a bold, youth-driven response that turns struggle into ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Meet Osmic Menoe, custodian of South African hip-hop and one of the champions of Jozi My Jozi’s new campaign called Babize Bonke which invites people to experience the revival of the city through the ...