

The pan-Africanist ideal never died—it morphed into hybridised sonic fragments that connect Joburg to Nairobi via Lagos and Accra. One of the latest testaments to the continent’s far-reaching musical ingenuity is Champz’s “Bad Guyz”, which appears on the teenage Nigerian MC’s recently released Young Poet EP. Hear it on Africa Now alongside everything else hot and new with roots in the continent, and hype up your library by adding anything that vibrates in lockstep with your beat.