African Futures
African Futures Music Concert & Party: Spoek Mathambo / Batuk/Keziah Jones/Just A Band/Gato Preto
Nigerian musician Keziah Jones, South African Spoek Mathambo, Kenya’s Just A Band and German duo Gato Preto will join for an evening of music and the closing party of African Futures. Each of them will be performing music that relates to the theme of African Futures.
Listen to this concert on PASS. 31/10/2015. 21hoo-late
Keziah Jones, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist, who accompanied Lenny Kravitz on his world tour, will present music from his latest album Captain Rugged, which was accompanied by a graphic novel, about the adventures of an African superhero.
Listen to Rugged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ke2wRFXa-w
Just A Band, whose self-produced sound has been described as an eclectic, soulful, funky trip, will bring their D.I.Y. aesthetic that extends to their music videos, which have become internet sensations in their own right .
Listen to Winning in Life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX1ZWYv4ZQ
Creative collective Batuk, founded by electronic music producers Spoek Mathambo and Aero Manyelo along with vocalist Nandi Ndlovu and Mozambican poet Carla Fonseca, will present their vision of Afrofuturism with an original set of music, specially created for African Futures, in collaboration with a traditional music collective from Mozambique.
Listen to Spoek Mathambo- Awufuni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTg2nZI34Kw
Gato Preto, the German based music duo by Gata Misteriosa (Mozambique, Portugal) and Lee Bass (Ghana/Germany), will perform their Mysterious Black Cat Project and from their new album, to be released in October 2015
Listen to Pirao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYvyZBmN3s
Listen to this concert on PASS. 31/10/2015. 21hoo-late
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Tags: African Futures, Gato Preto, just a band, Keziah Jones, spoek mathambo
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African Futures Knowledge Production: Where do we go from here?
“Who generates knowledge about Africa? How do past, present and future collide in representations of the continent? And what are the different languages we use to speak about Africa’s political, technological and cultural tomorrow?” Listen to this talk on PASS. 31/10/2015. 10hoo-13h00 While the world embraces information as both resource and currency, Africa is busy working on telling its story and imagining that story’s future. Will this shift the way in which we think about information or data? Can fiction …
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Tags: Achille Mbembe, African Futures, Keziah Jones, Ntone Edjabe, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
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Circum-Atlantic Conference: The Future of the African Diaspora
“Afrofuturism, arguably the most famous concept of speculative futures of the African diaspora, originated primarily in the USA, and is associated with artists such as Sun Ra, George Clinton and Octavia Butler. Envisaging a future and presenting this impulse was considered a symbol of liberation. How do contemporary artists and intellectuals of the African diaspora in North and South America, as well as Europe, envision their future today?” Listen to this talk on PASS. 30/10/2015. 19hoo-21h00 The circum-atlantic conference will …
African Futures. Technology: Means or Curse of the Future?
“Who owns technology and its embedded codes? When will we use software that’s written in Yoruba? And what’s the story with Ghanaian cyberpunk?” On the 30th of October, 2015, PASS will be streaming the panel discussion “Technology: Means or Curse of the Future?” that features Raimi Gdadamosi (Nigeria/UK) as the keynote speaker, and Teagan Bristow (South Africa), Jonathan Dotse (Ghana) and Waniru Kahui (Kenya) as panel respondents. “Technology in its current form (and particularly the representation of technology) is widely produced …
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Tags: African Futures, Jonathan Dotse, raimi gbadamosi, teagan bristow, Wanur Kahui
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African Futures: Africa’s Speculative Futures and New Imaginaries
“What kind of speculative futures do artists from different disciplines imagine? Much thought-provoking work has been produced when artists engage with ideas of the future and how contemporary realities in Africa potentially provide answers to questions yet to come.” On the 29 of October, 2015, PASS will be streaming the panel discussion “Africa’s Speculative Futures and New Imaginaries” that features Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroun) as the keynote speaker, and Sherif Adel (Egypt), Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum …