Lupita Nyong’o Talks Podcast ‘Mind Your Own’, Review of Oxlade’s ‘Oxlade From Africa’
for its culture has grown rapidly. Many hope to further extend its reach. Yet, as African artisans connect and build upon one another’s successes, they’ve come to center themselves. “Rolling Stone” staff writer Mankaprr Conteh that celebrates and interrogates the lives, concerns, and innovations of African musicians from their vantage point.
But all that unrest Nyong’o points to — the product of a history of calculated disenfranchisement all over the continent — is perhaps one of the reasons we’re quick to unify under one banner, different as we are.
Nyong’o — who listens to music constantly and uses it to develop the characters she plays — has an interesting take on these concerns, and on what we stand to gain and lose from globalization more broadly. “I am so happy to have access to African music from where I sit,” she told me. “That wasn’t always the case, so it feels so good to walk into a club in Germany, hear Wizkid, and have people sing along, even if they don’t know those Pidgin words.
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