In this stirring documentary meet Sister Fa, a brilliant and tough-minded 27-year-old rapper from Senegal. As a victim of female genital cutting (FGC), she has devoted herself to ending the...

In this stirring documentary meet Sister Fa, a brilliant and tough-minded 27-year-old rapper from Senegal. A victim of female genital cutting (FGC), she has devoted herself to ending the practice...

At first sight Yarmouk looks like a normal suburb of Damascus. But it's a refugee camp; full of tightly packed departments and home to many second and third generation Palestinian...

The broad appeal of hip hop and house music is truly global. Savor the fresh sounds of Jordan's D.J. Zafer Younis, with his cutting edge fusion of Bedouin sounds, as...

"Topical" music with a message: The Taiwanese hip hop group Kou Chou Ching deliver a timely statement about runaway capitalism in China, and Pistolera tackles the issue of immigration -...

(Czech Republic) This one is so out it's in...and you don't need to speak Czech to know it. You may remember the fun of this band's first video, "Romano...

(Colombia) This Cumbia-drenched track could not come from any place but Colombia.  "Here comes Bomba Estereo with Champeta, reggae music, cumbia, and folklore,     Come on, It's a...

(Sudan) Here is a simply stunning event and a stunning song. When Emmanuel Jal was twelve years old he trecked across the African Plain, fleeing his life of being a...

-Buy the album (Somalia/Canada) As a teenager K'Naan spent his time dodging death on the streets of Mogadishu. Taking the last commercial flight out of Somalia in...