Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #61--Dasan Ahanu (Part 1 of 2): The Fellowship of The Artist

THE UBUNTU PEOPLES Podcast with Oronde Ash

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #61--Dasan Ahanu: The Fellowship of The Artist (Part 1 of 2)

Dasan Ahanu is a public speaker, organizer, workshop facilitator, poet, spoken word performer, educator, songwriter, writer, emcee, and loyal Hip Hop head born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dasan is a member of Black Jedi Zulu, a non-profit community organization that seeks to serve the community while also fostering greater cultural awareness of Hip Hop. He was awarded a 2015-2016 Nasir Jones Fellowship with the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Currently Dasan is a visiting professor at UNC Chapel Hill teaching courses on Hip Hop and Black culture. In this episode, he talks about his year at Harvard, what he learned, making a living from the arts, the poetry scene in NC, young NBA players modeling the fundamentals of a new artistic expression, the state of Hip Hop, what it can be, which artists--Migos, Cardi B, 2 Chainz, Rapsody--are skipping the needle forwards, backwards and what that movement means for the culture.

Website: www.dasanahanu.com