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Oris Aigbokhaevbolo and Dami Ajayi
Writers Ori Aigbokhaevbolo and Dami Ajayi in conversation: The Local Rapper Syndrome and the New Nigerian Mixtape
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo is a Nollywood and pop culture critic. He was named the Music/Entertainment Journalist of the Year in 2015 at the All Africa Music Awards.
Dami Ajayi is a Nigerian writer who he has published one volume of poems, Clinical Blues and a chapbook, Daybreak & Other Poems, both to critical and commercial acclaim. He is also the co-publisher of the literary magazine Saraba as well as a medical doctor currently specializing in psychiatry.
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Adunni and Nefertiti, Dabyna and Aramide
Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in 2005. On Friday’s Programme he features ADUNNI & NEFERTITI, DABYNA & ARAMIDE Adunni and Nefertiti is …
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Remembering the Future with Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede
A conversation three ways (dance, music, poetry) between Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede in which they explore the following questions: How do we attain grace within the muffling burden of memory? What has the past got to offer the future beyond history and memory? How do we forget the past in order to remember our future? It is an attempt to rewrite our myths, and through that re-imagination of the past, design a new kind of destiny that can …
Wura Samba
Wura Samba is a seven member band based in Lagos, Nigeria and led by Abiodun Abraham Oke. They use traditional percussion instruments in a modernized way. Abiodun Abraham Oke, a versatile, talented and experienced drummer and percussionist, plays his instruments with such dexterity and passion that lends the band its uniqueness. Samba’s music can be characterized as a fusion of traditional African folk songs and rhythms with a classical and modern usage of various percussion instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUiM3mU_zmw
PASS landing at Kallio Library, Helsinki
Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? In April and May 2016, Chimurenga’s installation Chimurenga Library and pop-up radio station Pan African Space Station infiltrated the Kallio Library in Helsinki. The intervention was a continuation of Chimurenga’s ongoing exploration into the utopian moment shortly after African independences, when a series of Pan African festivals staged in Dakar, Algiers, Lagos and Kinshasa functioned as laboratories for the development of new, …
Tunde Jegede
Tunde Jegede is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is a master kora player, and specializes in the West African classical music tradition which dates from the period of Sundiata. He is a prolific song writer and has worked across several genres both as a performer and producer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTUNSJO7Qs
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Temi Dollface and Brymo
Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in 2005. In Thursday’s programming, he features singers Temi Dollface and Brymo. Temi Phil-Ebosie better known as …
Remembering the Future
A conversation three ways (dance, music, poetry) between Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede in which they explore the following questions: How do we attain grace within the muffling burden of memory? What has the past got to offer the future beyond history and memory? How do we forget the past in order to remember our future? It is an attempt to rewrite our myths, and through that re-imagination of the past, design a new kind of destiny that can …
Tam Fiofiri- The Speed of Thought
It is said that Sun Ra introduced the Moog synthesizer to the jazz world. The man who introduced Sun Ra to the Moog is Tam Fiofori, a little known Nigerian journalist, photographer and historian – then Harlem based, but better known in Lagos as “Uncle Tam”. Fiofori is also one of the first critics to write seriously about the most famous citizen of Saturn – his essay in Downbeat Magazine “Sun Ra’s Space Odyssey” (1969) is a founding connection between …
Temitope Kogbe
Temitope Kogbe is a DJ from Lagos with interests in photography, music and African history. Temi also collects vinyl of post-highlife West African music and genres it birthed. Temi’s interest in music started with his dad’s large collection of LPs from the 70s and 80s. His family later moved to Paris during the boom of the Jazz era where he eventually caught the bug, attending as many concerts as he could and taking drum lessons from jazz drummer, Sangoma Everett. Temi …