Author

In 1990 I created Black Noise News (BNN), which was the foundation for creating South Africa’s first Hip Hop Magazine Da Juice in 1993. It was originally called The Message. I have since written and contributed to 24 books: What is Hip Hop?, My Hip Hop is African & Proud, Conscious Rhymes For Unconscious Times, Heal The Hood B-boying Grade 1 Manual, (Rhymes, Articles, Poetry, Short Stories and Sketches) R.A.P.S.S. version 1-3, Land i Forandring, Barn och unga i sodra Afrika, Bushman Creation Story, The Story Of The Wind, Fire The Dancer, Princess Vlei, The Big Water-snake, The Lioness, Sally the Salmon, Why Turtles Cry, Saartjie Baartman, Girl That Made The Milky Way, Reflections on Knowledge Learning & Social Movements, The Hip Hop Cook Book & Reconnect the String. I recently co-edited Neva Again with UCLA Professor H. Samy Alim & South African Professors Adam Haupt & Quentin Williams. I am currently working on 3 more books called Making A Black Noise 1 & 2, Hip Hop Education: We Live This and I have co-written a chapter for the book, The 5th Element, edited by H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, and Casey Wong on the University of California Press (2021). In 2022 we were mentioned by the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa in his State Of The Nation Address for our work on the Trilingual Dictionary of Afrikaaps. I also just completed a 2nd Edition of My Hip Hop is African & Proud and A Colouredful Life Part 1.

1989 – The Message 

1993 –  Da Juice, South Africa’s First Hip Hop Magazine    

1995 – What is Hip Hop? 

1998 – Land i Forandring, 

2000 – Barn och unga i sodra Afrika

2003 –  My Hip Hop is African & Proud

2005 – R.A.P.S.S. (Rhymes, Articles, Poetry, Short Stories and Sketches) version 1-3,

2010 – Heal The Hood B-boying Grade 1 Manual,  

             –  Conscious Rhymes For Unconscious Times ,

2012 –  The Hip Hop Cook Book  

2017 –  Bedtime Story Books – Bushman Creation Story, The Story Of The Wind, Fire The

Dancer, Princess Vlei, The Big Water-snake, The Lioness, Sally the

Salmon, Why Turtles Cry, Saartjie Baartman, Girl Made The Milky Way,

          –   Reflections on Knowledge Learning & Social Movements 

2019 –  Neva Again :-  Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa

2020  –  Reconnect the String  

I recently co-edited Neva Again with UCLA Professor H. Samy Alim & South African

Professors Adam Haupt & Quentin Williams. I am currently working on 3 more books

called Making A Black Noise 1 &; 2, Hip Hop Education: We Live This and I have co-

written a chapter for the book, The 5th Element, edited by H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang,

and Casey Wong on the University of California Press (2021). In 2022 we were

mentioned by the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa in his State Of The Nation

Address for our work on the Trilingual Dictionary of Afrikaaps. I also just completed a

2nd Edition of My Hip Hop is African & Proud and A Colouredful Life Part 1.