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Black History Month has the power to connect the diaspora when it holds many histories, encourages learning beyond one month, and makes space for complexity, and not just celebration. In Makela Space 5 we access Sound as knowledge and History as something we do together. In Black History month we hold space for ancestors Marcus Garvey and Audre Lorde and will explore foundational music from the Caribbean. This month we also look into the future with our special guest, boundary pushing Swiss- Togolese artist and performer, Davide Christelle Sanvee. We will also continue to tweek alternative listening practices.  

Contributor: Davide Christelle Sanvee is a Swiss-Togolese artist and performer. Her work begins in the body, where history, race, and the gaze meet movement, voice, and sound. We’ll talk about her practice in the context of her most recent performance piece "Qui a Peur"— and reflect on freedom, as Achille Mbembe describes it: "Invented inside constraint."

Ancestral Frequencies:

Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist, organizer, and visionary whose work ignited global movements for Black self-determination. Through the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Garvey mobilized millions across the African diaspora, using oratory, print, pageantry, and collective rhythm as tools of political awakening. His ideas on unity, sovereignty, and economic freedom continue to echo through liberation movements, resistance music, and diasporic futures.

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) was a Black feminist poet, essayist, and cultural theorist who transformed language into a radical technology of survival and change. Rooted in lived experience, her work sounded the frequencies of intersectionality—race, gender, sexuality, class—as sites of power, resistance, and creative force. Lorde’s words remain vital to movements that understand poetry, sound, and truth-telling as acts of liberation.

Join us in the Free Future Frequencies!

TRACKS:

-intro:monty alexander · ernest ranglin *marcus garvey · rocksteady(2004 telarc international corp., distributed by concord).

-facundo rivero y su quarteto *negro mi cha cha cha

- ambroise gouala *pastourelle [guadeloupe, commandeur de quadrille]   

-Audre Lorde * the complete last reading in berlin, sept 1992

-Marcus Garvey: black moses | stuff you should know (youtube)- air date: may 5, 2022

-Makela *Voicewerx and Sonic resistances

-Nakimbembe embaire group & naoyuki uchida *econikcookoyawunaemaali

-outro:   Alexander, Monty, and Ernest Ranglin.*Marcus Garvey. Rocksteady, Telarc International Corp., 2004.