Africa Is a Country Radio: Chief Boima with DJ Ripley

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its literary theme for its third season on Worldwide FM. The fourth instalment takes a look at the colonial history of copyright, and the long history of resistance (or indifference) to that regime from the global margins.

Larisa Mann aka DJ Ripley takes a look at the specific case of Jamaica in her book Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power. Chief Boima opens the show with a selection of (anti-colonial/copyright) resistance music, and DJ Ripley takes us out with a selection of classic jungle and dancehall tunes that inspired her work as a musician and academic

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