Valentin Zill lives in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and works as a freelance music journalist and PR advisor. He publishes regularly in RIDDIM, reggaeville.com, UnitedReggae.com and other print and online magazines. In 2012, he got a Bachelor of Arts in African Studies from Bayreuth University. The title of his thesis: «Don’t care where you come from/as long as you’re a Black man/you’re an African» – Africa in Jamaican and Ivorian Reggae.