Kwame Ametepee Tsikata—better known as Ghanaian hip-hop artist M.anifest—is smiling ear-to-ear from his home in Accra, Ghana, when he hops on Zoom. Despite being more than 6,000 miles away, his warm ...

Equal parts witty, candid, ruminating, and ferocious, M.anifest’s new mixtape, The Birds and the Beats—available for free download on the artist’s Web site—is an unofficial but solid follow-up to his ...

At first I was wondering if M.anifest‘s June 15 performance was going to be cancelled as only about a dozen people were there at the beginning of the show, the second in The Cedar’s African Summer ...

Numbers do not matter when I’m making music,” rapper M.anifest has stated, explaining that his focus in the studio is creativity rather than charts or streaming figures, even though he understands the ...

Raised in a culture without MTV, Ghanaian-born rapper M.anifest was introduced to hip-hop via a lost art -- the dubbed cassette. Trading black-market tapes with friends and relatives who had traveled ...

Ghanaian rapper M.anifest has explained to DJ Slim on Daybreak Hitz, his approach to music collaborations and his creative process. When asked about how he chooses someone for a feature, M.anifest ...

Ghanaian rapper M.anifest opined on what is takes to get people buy into one's music talent and invest in them. In a conversation with DJ Slim on Daybreak Hitz, M.anifest emphasised that having talent ...

.M.anifest, a rapper and Twin Cities transplant from Ghana, released his first album Sept. 11. “Manifestations” might prove to be one of the best local hip-hop releases of 2007, with a strong vocal ...

Every once in a while, there comes a moment when we deem it absolutely necessary to appreciate and celebrate some illustrious sons of our motherland who over the past years, never relented in their ...