Richard Oduor Oduku is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief at Sisi Afrika Magazine. He is also a Founding Member of Jalada Africa Trust – a Pan-African collective.
He has been published widely in spaces within and outside the continent. He has been published by Jalada Africa, Saraba Africa, Panorama – The Journal of Intelligent Travel, This is Africa (TIA), Brittle Paper, and The Elephant, and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, among others.
He was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards (2015), the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2017), Brittle Paper Award for Essays/Think Pieces (2017) and Brittle Paper Anniversary Award (2018), for the Nonfiction piece “An African in London and Other Reflections on African Literatures’.
Kenya’s hip hop scene has been nothing but a graveyard of mixtapes which – while offering a glimpse at the spirit and experimentation – deny listeners the beauty of intention, coherence, and completeness.
The hip hop group bequeathed Kenya a unique and identifiable hip hop soundscape, and their oeuvre remains the only most studied by urban music archaeologists, but what happened?
