Tag: africa
Africa Latina Mix
by Boima Tucker
For our final chapter of the Dutty Artz February Mixtape Mondays (check previous mixes by DJ /rupture & Sonido Martines, DJ Ushka, and DJ Ripley), my brother Geko Jones and I decided to chime in with a collaborative submission. For several years, Geko and I have been following and rearranging the lines that connect Africa and Latin America through our musical explorations. This mix, which touches on Champeta, Semba, Ndombolo, Morna, House, Kuduro, and neo-Highlife, is our latest take on the […]
Categories: Mixes, Music, Tha Homies • Tags: africa, Angola, Cabo Verde, Champeta, Chief Boima, geko jones, Highlife, House, Kizomba, Kuduro, Latina, Morna, Naija, Rumba, Semba, Soukous
A Rainy Sunday Morning
by Boima Tucker
I had a real fun time as a guest on my DJ partner and roommate Lamin Fofana‘s Sunday morning radio show this past weekend. We laughed the whole way through the rainy morning, and when Lamin would stop suddenly and announce, “on a serious note, there is flash flooding in…” I’d be rolling on the floor. I can’t switch gears that fast. But I mostly wanted to share this because I was able to play a lot of music that […]
Categories: Music, Tha Homies • Tags: africa, Chief Boima, Dance, Dub, Dutty Artz, Ghana, Give it Up for Champagne, Lamin Fofana, Liberia, Party, Sierra Leone, Sunday Mornings
Africa is a Landmass
by Boima Tucker
I’ve recently had the honor to join the Africa Is a Country team, a great blog run by Sean Jacobs, one of the professors in my program at The New School. It’s been quite a ride already, there is a very interactive readership over there. You can check out all my posts and join in the fun at Africa is a Country
Categories: Blog Business • Tags: Academics, africa, Africa Is a Country, blogs, Culture, New School
African By The Bay
by Boima Tucker
Cover Artwork by Lupo Avanti (my roomate!) In collaboration with the HOMIEZ at Dutty Artz, I am releasing my first collection of remixes as African By The Bay. The crew did such a nice job of putting this page together I’ll let them take over: ————- Dutty Artz is proud to present The African By The Bay EP, an exclusive collection of irresistible remixes from San Francisco/Bay Area producer Chief Boima. The EP is available for free download, and features […]
Categories: Music • Tags: africa, Bay Area, Chief Boima, Coupe Decale, Remix
Goodbye for Now, Dakar
by Boima Tucker
Not even 10 hours out of Dakar and I’m already missing it. What a great city. I’ll definitely be back soon, and hopefully have a better hold on my French language skills. Dakar in a lot of ways (right now at least) is the African city of my dreams. It’s not my ancestral homeland, but it feels like home to someone in between worlds like myself. A diverse cosmopolitan population, but a strong sense of cultural pride and deep traditional […]
Categories: Gigs, Thought • Tags: africa, africa is the future, african identity, Dakar, Hip Hop, identity, islam, mbalax, modern, Senegal, this is africa, tradition, urban
Stockholm to London
by Boima Tucker
Travelling from an emerging global capital to the OG one, I Stopped over in London for a couple days to meet up with Vamanos. Stockholm was a great summer city, sunlight for 21 hours a day, good parties, beautiful people. I love cities that have real summers and real winters. People suffer through the cold to go mad in the heat! The differences between Stockholm and London at least on the surface are pretty evident. It’s interesting for me to […]
Categories: Thought • Tags: africa, diaspora, london, stockholm, Tour
