Join Deji Toye, an enterprise lawyer/governance professional by day who explores and array of interests (editorial cartoonist, poet, playwright, literary critic and culture activist) the rest of the time, as he discusses the new Nigerian Theatre Audience with Wole Oguntokun and Segun Adefila. Wole Oguntokun is a playwright, stage and film director,  theatre administrator and newspaper columnist. Segun Adefila is co-founder and artistic director/choreographer of Crown Troupe of Africa, a performance art company.  ( continue reading

The final day of our broadcast from Kallio Library, Helsinki opens with conversations between choreographer, Sonya Lindfors, comic artist, Warda Ahmed and Third Space. This is followed by a presentation on anti-fascist thought by Rab-Rab founder, Sezgin Boykin. Visual artist, David Munoz stepu in next asking What do we owe to what we know? What does what we know, owe to what we don’t know? Then we have Minna Henrikson and Ahmed Al-Nawas in conversation about the 1962 Helsinki Youth Festival. …  ( continue reading

On the second day of the broadcast, we open the day’s programme with Ali Akbar Mehta, grandson of  Tyeb Mehta’s pours his concern over violence on canvas. This is followed by a conversation between Morrocan MC Hosni Boudali and Christopher Wessels After that, writer- director Hassan Blasim in conversation with Ahmed Al-Nawas. Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic. Later, Sezgin Boynik, Sergio Castrillón & Taneli Viitahuhta discuss Cornelius Cardew and how he politicized collective involvement with learning …  ( continue reading

Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic. Blasim went to Finland as a refugee in 2004 after getting in trouble when making the film The Wounded Camera in the Kurdish area in northern Iraq. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His short story collection The Madman of Freedom Square was long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010.[1] His book The Iraqi …  ( continue reading

Hossni Boudali is an mc, singer and musician based in Helsinki. His work during early nineties have been great influence to Finnish hip hop and jazz. He has also directed a musical about the life of musician Fela Kuti.  ( continue reading

Babatunde “Aiyekooto” Akerele leads a Helsinki-based band called Aiyekooto & Afrobeat International. Nigerian born afrobeat musician, composer, arranger and lead singer Babatunde Akerele aka Aiyekooto (b.1966) moved to Finland in 2005, with the assistance of Finnish colleague, guitar player and recording artist Seppo ”Paarma” Salmi. Back in 2003, in Nigeria, they had released a single together, Falana (mind your own business). It got a positive response and radio play on the local stations. When they settled to live in Helsinki, the …  ( continue reading