Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Digital Griots and Does Africa Dream of Androids?


While searching for random stuff through the internet again, I came across Adam Joel Banks 2011 book, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age. The book looks at the intersections between African American cultures and community building, and new technology and new media, the intersections between tradition and innovation and the constant search […]

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Modern Griots Interview: Lachi


In their single, “Bug Out,” Lachi and Meridian Gold declare living life and not letting hate stop you from being yourself. As a talented singer, musician and writer who was born to Nigerian parents and is legally blind,  Lachi knows the feeling personally. And she hasn’t let anything stop her. She has received a master’s […]

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