Ayriq Akam

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The Minimalist Aesthetic in Ayriq Akam’s New Songs

Ayriq Akam’s experimental hip hop goes from soulful to minimalist Perhaps best known for “Bienvenue au Cameroun”, a hip hop song with a soulful influence released in 2010 to wide acclaim, Ayriq Akam can be considered as a lynchpin of the underground hip hop/rap scene in Cameroon. “Bienvenue au Cameroun” is shot around the Central

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Culture Ebene, Stone Karim and a Revenge Narrative

Dzekashu MacViban  Stone Karim at the Institut Français de Haïti Writing for Culture Ebene in 2012, Tatla Mbetbo’s piece “Le slam camer est stone” (Cameroonian spoken word is Stone) reads more like a “revenge narrative” rather than a journalistic piece. The piece, which humbly acknowledges Stone Karim’s contribution to the evolution of spoken word in

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