The internet is a strange and wonderful thing. Our story starts with a Sunday evening, a man and his laptop. He's creating memes of a socio-political bent. As one does, these days, as a kind of creative activism when you're bored on the internet and have an issue you want to address. His name is Damian Stephens and he's quite famous for the label he started called Pioneer Records that specialises in finding and promoting conscious, vernac hip hop - drawn mainly from the ghettoes that surround Cape Town. The divide between white privilege and black poverty is a pretty central theme to his position. A foot in both worlds, as it were. read more...