Mawunyo Gbogbo is the Author of the memoir Hip Hop & Hymns, published by Penguin Random House and described by Books+Publishing as “a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir”. Mawunyo writes about growing up in the sleepy coal mining town of Muswellbrook NSW, with her love of storytelling and budding journalism career taking her to The City That Never Sleeps: New York City, where she interns at the Bible of hip hop – the Source Magazine. Mawunyo has worked in the media industry for two decades and is currently a pop culture journalist for ABC News.
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I Got A Story To Tell: Hip-Hop & Literature
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