“You just need to listen”    ( continue reading

Digital music platforms across the continent and Senegalese Hip-Hop focus.  ( continue reading

As Kodwo Eshun has said “critique is love”. For one of the closing sessions to our live in London broadcasts, Christine Eyene shares her affection and critical appreciation for the photography (let’s say genius) of George Hallett. Brotherhood of Breath leading us in…  ( continue reading

Rehana Zaman draws on black women’s experiences of activism, immigration and race relations in ‘That’s Life’, a two-part audio work developed for Pass Me the Microphone. Part conversation, part song, voice and music, ‘That’s Life’ reflects on the ways in which groups, organisations and systems, inscribe racialised and gendered roles within society. Part one features a conversation with Dr Gail Lewis, a sociologist who specialises in psychosocial studies of race and gender. Gail was a long standing member of Brixton …  ( continue reading

Order! Welcome to FESTAC… One of the delegates of the UK contingent at FESTAC, Michael McMillan, recalls his visit to Lagos ’77 as a 15-year old.  ( continue reading

“Although we talked about ‘literature teaching politics’ he was not as preoccupied with cultural politics or the new left the way in which I was. He didn’t read Marx, or Gramsci and he didn’t read Cabral or Fanon either. His brushes with the British police and Oxford is what drew him to black politics in Britain but at a distance.” The spirit of Dambudzo Marechera in the Showroom today! And live on PASS. Writer and critic George Shire knew the …  ( continue reading

Yusuf Musse and Jacob V Joyce with Kodwo Eshun. And the killer bees!  ( continue reading