RAPtivism (rap activism) is a project led by Aisha Fukushima (@aishafukushima) that highlights the ways in which global hip hop music and culture can actively contribute to universal efforts for freedom and justice by challenging apathy with awareness, ignorance with intelligence and oppression with expression.
…politics–specifically decades of African decolonization and American civil rights activism–begat culture. Kitwana and the hip-hop intellectuals are faced with the opposite dilemma. In this generation, the culture must foster a politics.