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This paper, through the descriptive and analytical method examines to what extent hip hop music, has adopted and adapted African musical resources. It argues that hip hop music has been a uniting force not only among Africans and Africans in diaspora but also globally, among the different cultures of the world, as it has been able to contribute in the forging of some sort of a common identity among its composers and patronizers

from an abstract of a paper titled “THE MUSIC THAT WORKS: HIP HOP MUSIC PROPAGATING SOLIDARITY, AFRICAN SELF-ESTEEM AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT” By IJEOMA IRUKA FORCHU (DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC/INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA/ENUGU CAMPUS). To see the presentation, check out he Africa and the Diaspora Conference today.