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Douala Hip Hop Festival is a major meeting of urban cultures in the Africa subregion Central. Managed by a professional and passionate team. It’s in 2010 that the festival was created by the cultural company ARGLO, in partnership with the Green Grass association.
The first year the festival was organized around four activities music (Hip Hop mainly), the Street Wear, the Graffiti and DJ Ying as the saying goes the essential thing was to participate with an overflowing passion.
Here’s what one of the organizers had to say about the festival:
“In 2012, we instituted the Hip Hop legend of the festival which is designated to accompany the festival and therefore the passive tells the story of Cameroonian hip hop in particular and African in general. Krotal was our first legend followed by KOPPO, Sadrake from NEGRISSI’M, BOUDOR and LADY B in 2017, the idea being to present to the youngest, the pioneers. Always in this momentum and in a dynamic opening, a sponsor accompanies the festival. This is a figure having marked the African music in general and Cameroon in particular: 2015 (Les Tetes Brulees) / 2016 (San Fan Thomas) / 2017 (Ben Decca).”
This opening is extended both with the diversification of activities, festival-goers and beginning to come first from the Central African, African and today from all over the world.
Sharing a common vision for seven years, this group of passionate musics united his personal efforts to tell and perpetuate the history of rap and African urban arts with the support of some local businesses and patrons.
Over the years, with many innovations, DHF has become a privileged scene contributing the development of Hip-Hop but also other musical and artistic trends such as street dance, graffiti.
For this 8th edition of the Douala Hip Hop Festival which will take place from 27 to 30 December 2018 with a LIVE BAND, a call for applications will be launched four months before the festival to give the different national and international discoveries a chance to diffuse their works.
With artists such as;
Mr Leo, Locko, Tenor, Mink’s, Askia, Salatiel, Gasha, Danielle Eog, Adango, Lady B, Koppo, Sadrak, Krotal, Mahloox the Vibe, Kareyce Fotso, K TINO and as godfather : EKAMBI BRILLANT.
– Positive Black Soul (Senegal) – Ibaaku (SENEGAL) – Omarson (Chad) – Mixton (Congo)
– Fredy Masamba (Congo / Belgium) – Veeby (Canada / Cameroon) – BADI (Belgium) – TÉHUI
– eLle Stooley (Haiti / Canada) – Cheik Tidiane (Mali) expect electrifying performances.
Season 8 of Douala Hiphop Festival will be held from 27 to 30 December 2018. During these four days, this festival will make us live exceptional moments through different events.
It will take place in two phases: the pre-festival and the actual festival.
The pre-festival will focus on mini-shows, mangrooves, competitions in schools, street wear market, as well as digital communication that will be accentuated and will be done for two months before the festival through teaser videos, web shows, commercials … Speaking of the festival proper, The workshops and professional exchanges that will be held between 9h and 15h. From 4 pm, streetwear market and discoveries. From 18h, shows and shows.
