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Ghana Hip-Hop Festival Celebrates Local Take on American Music

Stacey Knott

   ACCRA, GHANA - An annual hip-hop festival in Ghana celebrated the West
   African country's take on the American-born music and culture.
   Performers used their music and art to represent culture and life in
   Ghana, infusing local languages, fashion, and sounds into hip-hop
   style.

   Selorm Attikpo, creative director of Yoyo Tinz, a platform dedicated to
   promoting hip-hop in Africa, and co-founder of last week's festival,
   says hip-hop in Ghana has grown from its early days of cassettes
   imported from the U.S. to today, where artists rap in local dialects to
   tell their own stories.

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