On Mermaids and Microwaves

What if you don’t want a microwave meal? What if you want to season and stew your dishes, make them undeniably your own? “Fairytales For Lost Children” is a reflection of that old-school vibration.

Traditional Intellectuals

Izithunywa Zohlanga use indigenous repertoire and idioms to produce music and literature that speaks directly to the present

Sungura Stories

Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s and 1990s, the era of sungura music. Dubbed the “authentic sound of Zimbabwe”, sungura weaved together Congolese rumba with Zimbabwean jiti and Tanzanian kanindo.

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Imagined Waters

Through the poetry of its mariners – the singers of its rivers and seas – Yvonne A. Owuor explores the geography of the vast oceans of Africa.

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Live Broadcast – Water No Get Enemy

In honour of the almighty water we present a day-long broadcast on flows and unflows, tidalectics and water babies, cities and cemeteries, mosi-oa-tunya and motla le pula, drexciya, hendrixian merman and mami wata, ngondo and orin o’lomi, puddles, poem-maps and the rivers in our bellies, nkrumah’s and nehru’s big man dams, saline consciousness and the incessant fear of a wet planet.

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On Mermaids and Microwaves

What if you don’t want a microwave meal? What if you want to season and stew your dishes, make them undeniably your own? “Fairytales For Lost Children” is a reflection of that old-school vibration.

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