Curriculum Vitae (Since 2018)

Education

Teaching Experiences

Publications

I. Books

Kibona Clark, M., and Mohammed, W. (Eds). (2023). African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora. Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.

Clark, M.K. (2018). Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers. Ohio University Press.

Clark, M.K., Mnyandu, P., Azalia, L. (Eds). (2018). Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism. Lexington Press

II. Edited Volumes

Clark, M.K. 2024. Special Issue: Language and Hip Hop in Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies.

Clark, M.K and Erie, J. (Eds). (2022). Special Issue: Hip hop in South Africa. Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture.

III. Select Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Kibona Clark, M. (2023). Hip Hop studies as a model for anti-imperialist research in Africa. Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 10 (2), 27-46.

Kibona Clark, M. (2023). Ghana (The Politics of Genre Classification). Global Hip Hop Studies, 3 (1 & 2), 71-78.

Clark, M.K. (2019). Hip-Hop and human rights in Africa. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. https://www.georgetownjournalofinternationalaffairs.org/online-edition/2019/2/4/hip-hop-and-human-rights-in-africa

Clark, M.K. (2018). Feminisms in African hip hop. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 17 (2), 383-400.

IV. Select Book Chapters

Kibona Clark, M. 2023. Decolonizing African Studies approaches to research on African women in Hip-Hop. In: Q. Williams and J. N. Singh (eds.) Global Hiphopography. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Clark, M.K. (2023). Women, Hip Hop, and Social Discourse in South Africa. The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, 108-111. The Baltimore Museum of Art.

Kibona Clark, M. & Nikoi, N. K. (2022). Studies of Gender and Popular Music in Africa. In Simone Krüger Bridge (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Popular Music (online edition). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190081379.013.53.

Kibona Clark, M. (2020) African Women Hip-Hop Artists Representing Transnational Identities: Y3 Fr3 Me Rebel. In: Yacob-Haliso O., Falola T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Clark, M.K. (2019). The contemporary African Diaspora. In M. Azevedo (Ed), Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora (263 – 289). Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Clark, M.K. (2018). The evolution of a bicultural identity, in the shadows of Nyerere’s Pan Africanism. In M.K. Clark, P. Mnyandu, L. Azalia (Eds), Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism. Lexington Press.

V. Select Book Reviews & Essays

Kibona Clark, M. (2021). A Personal Tribute to Professor Wamba dia Wamba. CODESRIA Bulletin 1: 53.

Kibona Clark, M. (2021). Hip hop and Pan Africanism: from Blitz the Ambassador to Beyoncé. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/hip-hop-and-pan-africanism-from-blitz-the-ambassador-to-beyonce-151680.

Kibona Clark, M. (2020). Leticia Kulwa Maganga and Junayna Al-Sheibani (authors). Rosebell Kagumire (co-editor). Consent as a Necessary Cultural Virtue in Tanzania. African Feminism. https://africanfeminism.com/consent-as-a-necessary-cultural-virtue-in-tanzania/.

Clark, M.K. (2018). Beef. In T. Riggs (Ed), St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture (pp. 38-42). Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press.

VI. Digital Scholarship

2016-present: Producer, Host, and Editor. The Hip Hop African Podcast. https://hiphopafrican.com/the-hip-hop-african-podcast-2/.

2011-Present: Editor and Writer. The Hip Hop African Blog. https://hiphopafrican.com/.

2011-Present: Content Creator and Editor. The Hip Hop African YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@HipHopAfrican

Select Keynote Lectures

2024 July: Algorithmic Resistance: Addressing Algorithmic Representational Harm Against African Women. Digitalisation, AI and Feminist Futures Conference. Maputo, Mozambique.

2024 February: Black History Month Keynote. Hip Hop: A Shared History of Struggle and Resistance between Coloured South Africans & African Americans. Norfolk State University.

2023 June: Hip Hop, Afrobeats, and the Importance of Genre Classification. Keynote: Seminar Series “Youth on the Move”. Lagos Studies Association. University of Lagos (Nigeria).

2023 April 27: Hashtaging Activism: The Role of Social Media in Documenting African Women’s Organizing. Rethinking Print Culture, Media, Digital, and Oral History as Archive, Evidence, and Method. Johns Hopkins University.

February 2022. A John B. Slaughter Endowment Lecture: Hip Hop and the African Diaspora. The University of Maryland College Park.

October 2021. The Politics Around Race and Identity in South African Hip Hop. Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

June 2019. Today at Apple: Hip Hop and Representation. StoryMakers Festival. Apple Carnegie Library in Washington, DC

March 2019. Pan African Feminist Spaces in Hip Hop. Johnson C. Smith UniversityFebruary 2019. Eye on Africa Lecture Series: Gender, Sexuality, and Hip Hop in Africa. Michigan State University

October 2018. A Curtis Wilson Lecture: Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers. Cleveland State University

Select Presentations

April 2022: Panelist: Engaged Research in African Studies. African Studies Association of Africa conference. University of Cape Town.

November 2021: Panelist: Podcasting and Women in Africa. African Women in Media 2021 Conference. Virtual Conference.

May 2021: Panelist: Digital Innovation and the Future of Journalism. Innovation Week Tanzania 2021. Habari Hub: The Digital Journalism Innovation Ecosystem. Virtual Conference.

Select Media Appearances & Interviews

• 2024 April:  世界サブカルチャー史 21世紀の地政学ヒップホップ編 (History of World Subculture: Geopolitics of the 21st Century Hip Hop Edition) for NHK.
• 2023 August: Hip-Hop at 50: Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction. Associated Press.
• 2023 August: Women Rap Artists a Driving Force as Hip-Hop Turns 50. Public Radio International: The World.
• August 2022: How Professors Are Making a Case For Hip-Hop In Academia, OkayPlayer.com

Fellowships 

Current Service

Since 2020             Editorial Board: Journal of African Cultural Studies

Since 2019             Editorial Board: Global Hip Hop Studies (Journal)

Since 2016             Mentor: College of Mentors, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)