Wednesday, 24.8.2022
23:20 – 00:20, Maschinenhaus
FOKN Bois
Two years ago, Wanlov the Kubolor created a powerful video essay for Pop-Kultur that addressed structural violence against members of the LGBTQI* community and the homeless, but above all served as a gesture of solidarity and empowerment. Now, he’s finally coming to the festival in person with M3NSA: together they are the FOKN Bois, who gained notoriety in 2014 for writing the world’s first musical in Pidgin English. The Ghanaian duo always give attitude in their beat-heavy hiplife songs, and what they think of genre classifications can be inferred from the title of their EP: »Afrobeats LOL«. In other words: »This is not an African thing… Just a FOKN thing.« And above all, a very danceable thing.