Welcome to United Nations of Hip Hop aka UNOHH.
UNOHH launched for the first time in October 2005 and was the brain child of the members of Shadow Zu, an African Hip Hop group that was active in the Los Angeles area around that time. The idea behind the site was to provide a platform for African Hip Hop artists to promote themselves especially to audiences in the United States. We aimed to be a hub for African Hip Hop news in general and with that vision in mind we expanded and created regional hub sites for other West African hip hop nations. In 2006 we launched Nigerime, FasoRap, RapAlloco, dedicated respectively to the hip hop scenes in Niger, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast(Cote d’Ivoire). In 2008 and 2009 we added hubs for Guinee(Rap De Guinee) and Senegal (JolofRap) and kept tracks of the local developments in the music scene.
In 2009, we faced a certain number of halting setbacks in our operations, we lost contact with a lot of the local volunteers that were helping with keeping the sites updated and running, and for the United States team,changes in our personal lives distracted us away from our responsibilities to the main site, and at the same time, we suffered a number of hacking attacks that forced us to shut down operations for a while while planning a come back.
It happened finally in August 2010, and we made the decision to centralize our operations within a single site, and with the technology supporting this decision making it a breeze, it will allow us to expand on our initial mission by focusing on social tools and keeping up to date with the social nature of the web. Beyond music, we will be pushing to transform UNOHH into a cultural platform for Africans world wide. To achieve this, we are counting on the insights and efforts of a number of Africans abroad and living on the continent, whose unique backgrounds will allow us to channel the experiences of Africans worldwide through the music,news and opinions shared on this site.
It will be a long journey, but we hope to quickly make it into your list of Daily Sites To Check Once You Clock In At Work, and become part of your daily life. We are counting on your feedback, suggestions, and criticisms to help us move forward. Come back, do so often and spread the word!
The UNOHH Team
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