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LA BIBLIOTHEQUE MUDIMBE – DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2026
Pan Africanism at UNAZA, Lubumbashi
Today we engage with the intellectuals of Pan Africanism at UNAZA, the National University of Zaire in the 1970’s. After the 1969 Lovanium massacre, the entire university system, in what we know now as Democratic Republic of Congo, was reformed. The three major tertiary institutions became one, UNAZA. The entire social science and arts faculties shifted to Lubumbashi, along with the philosophers, historians and theorists of the time, including V.Y Mudimbe, Cheikh Anta Diop and many others.
13:00 – 14:00 Mudimbe the writer by Kadima-Nzuji, archival interview from 1979
14:00 – 15:00 What we are calling Copperbelt Music, tracing the ideas and sensibilities vehiculated through music along the extractivist corridor between Lubumbashi, Kitwe, Lusaka, Bulawayo to Johannesburg with Jackie Kabedi, the Karindula musicians, and Feza Kayungu
15:00 – 17:00 Thinking through the writings and ideas of Pan Africanism at UNAZA, in conversation with scholar Kalênge Yamukêna Yantûmbi, the Prisme Collective and guests
17:00 – 18:00 warm down DJ Spilulu
tune in LIVE on PASS!
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LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MUDIMBE
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LISTEN: “MORE MORE MORE… FUTURE” BY FAUSTIN LINYEKULA AND STUDIO KABAKO
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Tags: Faustin Linyekula, Studio Kabako
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MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle
1 August 2024 at the Chimurenga Factory, we hosted Pan African scholar and educator, Seth Markle. In session, Markle will takes us through the underground hip-hop scene of Tanzania, tracing the movement through a key selection of music, interviews and insights from his current project with on-the-ground artists-activists for whom hip-hop has long been a form of survival, expression, and cultural way of being.
Category: Liberation Radio, News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Bi Kidude, hip hop, James Wamba, Julius Nyerere, Juma Nature, KBC, Kikosi cha Mzinga, King Kiki, Kwanza Unit, Langa Kileo, Mejah Mbuya, Seif, Seth Markle, Sista Carrolla, Squeeza, taarab, Tanzania, Ujamaa, Wamaba dia Wamba, zeze
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Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
We are proud to announce the 2nd edition of Ubuhle Bendalo,“the beauty of creation/nature”,an annual community arts festival organised by multi-disciplinary artist Breeze Yoko in collaboration with pan-African arts platform Chimurenga from 16 – 18 February 2024. Consisting of exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances and more, this year’s edition aims to bring our arts community together by providing a platform for engagement, collaboration and play. It features some of the country’s leading radical creators, including Mzwandile Buthelezi, Loyiso Mkhize, The Ninevites, …
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Tags: Breeze Yoko, Community Arts Festival, Ubuhle Bendalo
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A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
We’re delighted to host a listening with Lagos born, Pitori based rapper/producer Damola Owolade on PASS, Friday, 24 November from 7pm. Damola is one-half of the celebrated Pan Africanist prog-rap-folk duo Deep Dive Set, who harness the archaeological function of the hip-hop art form: excavating samples like fossils, fragments of forgotten history resurrected and immortalized by the very act of their discovery. The raw materials of Damola’s production come from sakara, apala, juju, fuji, highlife and other sounds in the …
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Tags: apala, Damola Olowade, fuji, highlife, juju, sakara
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LIVE ON PASS THIS WEEK
FIELD RECORDINGS Groundings with Shabaka Hutchings on the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Sons of Kemet, Ancestors and more. Wednesday, 22 February 2023 – from 6pm Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za In preparation for Grounation – a tribute to The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on 24 Feb. Get your resale tickets via Quicket (qkt.io/EvMmff).
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Tags: Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation, Shabaka Hutchings
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LIVE ON PASS THIS WEEK
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The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster
We were honoured to present a 5-hour music selection in Greg Tate’s memory on his arrival day – 14 October – live on the Pan African Space Station. The music was lovingly selected by DJ Lynnée Denise, Elisa Blount Moorhead, and dream hampton, who collectively spent hours, days, and years processing, listening, describing, and testifying about music with him. The mix is assembled and introduced by DJ Lynnée Denise. DJ Lynnée Denise Greg Tate was a jazz historian, a scholar …
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Tags: DJ Lynnée Denise, dream hampton, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Greg Tate, Lynnée Denise
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we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming (Listening Session #2) – live on PASS – 06 Oct 2022 from 8:30pm
[Sketch by Myriam Pruvot courtesy of archive of Yasmina Reggad] With ‘Listening Session #2’, Yasmina Reggad extends an invitation to historian, researcher and performer Saphia Arezki (Marseille, France) to dive together into her sound archive gathered during the artist’ long-term research we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming, that investigates the liberation movements’ broadcasts aired by the Algerian National Broadcasting Company (RTA) in the 60s and 70s. Drawing on her previous polyglot and polyphonic sonic productions that echoed …
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Tags: Saphia Arezki, Yasmina Reggad
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