Oct 30, 2025
“Who’s Got the Paper? I’ve Got the Match”: Osibisa and the Politics of Documentation
Posted on 29th October, 2025 (GMT 05:30 hrs) AKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ ABSTRACT This paper offers an interpretive and historical reading of Osibisa’s 1970s Afro-rock track Who’s Got the Paper? as a sonic meditation on the politics of documentation, identity, and resistance. Beneath its surface as a jubilant “party anthem,” the song encodes a global genealogy of documentary surveillance—from…
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