The Hiplife in Ghana Book, authored by Professor Halifu Osumare, a Black American Associate Professor of African American Studies and the Director of the African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis in USA, was launched and presented at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana on Thursday October 18th 2012.The book which was published by Palgrave Macmillan was released in the USA and Europe on September 18th 2012. The launch was chaired by Professor Daniel Gbedo, a visiting Professor from the University of Ohio, USA. Opening the launch, Prof Gbedo gave a brief presentation of hiphop and its roots to Africa.During the presentation on the book, Professor Osumare took the audience through the four chapters of the book and her reasons for devoting five years of her academic life into researching on Ghana’s hiplife which is a blend of the highlife of West Africa and hip hop of the USA and pioneered by Reggie Rockstone
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