Pass Blog

The PASS Blog is a timeline, a history and an archive of all activity on the Pan African Space Station. Here you can scroll back in time to see information on past events, collaborators biographies, PASS features and more.

RADIO MAC – 14 June 2021 – 6pm: As tuas palavras já cansam / Your words are tiring already – Raquel Lima

As tuas palavras já cansam – Raquel Lima

Raquel Lima é uma poetisa portuguesa, arte-educadora e investigadora em Estudos Pós-Coloniais, atualmente está a fazer o seu doutoramento na Universidade de Coimbra. Nesta conversa navegamos entre as palavras poéticas de Raquel e a narração de suas histórias e utopias.


Your words are tiring already – Raquel Lima

Raquel Lima is a Portuguese poet, art educator and researcher of Post-Colonial Studies, and she is currently doing her PhD at the University of Coimbra. In this conversation we navigate between the Raquel’s poetic words and the narration of her stories and utopias.

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PASS landing in Lisbon

Chimurenga and Hangar presented Radio MAC , a program curated by Sonia Vaz Borges and Monica de Miranda – live on PASS 14-21 June 2021. Radio MAC is a reimagining of the radio organ of the Anti Colonialist Movement (MAC) founded by students and revolutionaries such as Marcelino dos Santos, Mario de Andrade and Aquino de Braganca in 1957 in Paris, in collaboration with Neto, Cabral and other nationalists in Lisbon. Programming consisted of eight episodes on the role of radio …  ( continue reading

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BLACK SUNLIGHT – A broadcast for Dambudzo Marechera on his 69th

On Friday 4 June, we celebrate the lives and work of The Black Insider heself, Dambudzo Marechera, on what would have been his 69th revolution. Dambudzo took off way too soon, on 18 Aug 1987, but left nuff WORD-SOUND-POWER for struggles to come. Our comrade Ilze Wolff selects from this deep arkive (speeches, interviews, rants and more) live on PASS from 6pm (SA time). Tune in. The painting is by Felix Shumba.  ( continue reading

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PASS landing at Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Paris

From 5-9 May 2021, Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed at Lavoir Moderne Parisien in Goutte d’or, Paris, to imagine, re-examine and re-circulate sonic archives of black radicalism in the francophone world. This session dug into the “soundtrack” (bande-son), an underlying container of information and ideas that is seldom explored on its own terms. We departed from cinematic practice, specifically films/filmmakers (Julius-Amedee Laou, Elsie Haas, Med Hondo, Kanor sisters, Sarah Maldoror, etc) represented in the printed archive we had …  ( continue reading

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IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – SUN, 09 MAY 2021

Day 5 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris   2:30pm – The premiere of The Africans – Act 2, a radio play by Christian Nyampeta 4pm – listening through the record collection of Sarah Maldoror with Pascale Obolo, Anna Tje and Annouchka de Andrade 6pm – a live performance by Cheikh Tidiane Fall and Tommie McKenzie  ( continue reading

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IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – SAT, 08 MAY 2021

Day 4 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Screening of Les Saints Et Les Anges and Zatrap/Le piege (Elsie Haas) 3pm – In conversation with Elsie Haas 4pm – Music as a site of memorialising – a sonic lecture with Franck Biyong 5:30pm – The premiere of The Africans – Act 2, a radio play by Christain Nyampeta 7pm – live showcase of Gwo Ka featuring Henri Poitou dit Toutoul, Rony …  ( continue reading

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IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – FRI, 07 MAY 2021

Day 3 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Screening of Solitaire a micro ouvert and La vieille quiloboise et le majordome (Julius Amedee Laou) 3pm – Brice Ahouno expands the soundtrack beyond the screen, with Wasis Diop and Roger Raspail 5:30pm – Digging into the FRench reggae scene with Maboula Soumahoro  ( continue reading

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IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – THURS, 06 MAY 2021

Day 2 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Screening of La noiraude 2:30pm – Zouk as aesthetics of black transnationalism, with Marie Julie Chalu and guests 4pm – Hamedine Kane digs deeper into the sonic archives of black radicalism in Paris 5pm – Live cross-over to the markets of Lomé with Elom 20ce  ( continue reading

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IMAGI-NATION NWAR in PARIS – WED, 05 MAY 2021

Day 1 of Imagi-nation Nwar, a live broadcast from Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Goutte d’or, Paris 2pm – Entering the sonic archives of black radicalism in the francophone world 4pm – The Paris-based afro/astrosonic network with Blaise N’Djehoya, DY Ngoy, Yebga Likoba and Cheikh Tidiane Fall  ( continue reading

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IMAGI-NATION NWAR – a PASS session in Paris, 5-9 May 2021

imagi-nation nwar – a PASS broadcast from Paris, 5-9 May 2021 Lavoir Moderne Parisien (35 rue Leon, Goutte d’or) From 2pm daily. Listen at panafricanspacestation.org.za Presented by Chimurenga with: Blaise N’Djehoya; Marie-Julie Chalu; DY Ngoy; Yebga Likoba; Cheikh Tidiane Fall; Fabienne et Véronique Kanor; Hamedine Kane; Elom 20ce; Brice Ahounou; Wasis Diop; Roger Raspail; Pascale Obolo; Julius-Amedee Laou; Jean-Jacques Dufayet; Maboula Soumahoro; Elsie Haas; Amandine Nana; Franck Biyong; Hemle Boum; Christian Nyampeta; Christelle Oyiri; Célia Potiron; Anna Tje; Annouchka de …  ( continue reading

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