Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)
On 1 October 2009, Pan African Space Station hosted Udaba at The Centre for the Book, Cape Town. Udaba was a musical flurry of passion, soul, soothsaying, truth-telling and jazz poetry that takes you on flights of improvisational abandon. Their politically engaged elegies fused vernacular lyricism, Xhosa praise singing and African indigenous music on jam-like […]
Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts
In April 2018, PASS welcomed back Georgia Anne Muldrow and her “ancestral orchestra” feat. Thandi Ntuli Quartet and The Monkey Nuts to Pan African Space Station (PASS). Below is an excerpt of that night. Breathe! For more visit the Pan African Space Station.
Steal Back the Treasure
Calls for restitution African artifacts from Western museums are mounting. Against this backdrop, Nigeria’s response to the British (Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture) in pirating the head of Queen Idia to use it as a logo for Festac 77 , proposes another dissonant route that challenges the very idea of the […]
Festac ’77
by Akin Adesokan Imagine, first, a priestess of Esu (Elegbara), the West African god of the crossroads and inspiration for the less tangible practice of hermeneutics. The woman, in her late sixties when the story begins, in August 1976, in a small village three hours by car north of Lagos, is also the mother of […]
BLACKOUT x 7 Octobre
Native Maqari and Keziah Jones Villa Medici channel Fela take on on Democrazy, migrant labour and hospitality in crisis. For more check out the last words of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. BLACKOUT Native Maqari x Keziah Jones Villa Medici – Villa Médicis RÉACTIVATION À PARIS LE 7 OCTOBRE VIVA VILLA PLACE DALIDA 22H #felakuti #migrantlabour #hospitalitycrisis