Makela Space 8. Language Is a Living Thing — the honest lie w/Nástio Mosquito
In Makela Space, diaspora is a practice — in the layering of voices, the refusal of single names, the insistence that sound can carry what the archive has chosen to forget...
In this episode of Makela Space, we are honoured to enter the presence of Yvette Mutumba — curator, writer, and artistic director of Contemporary And (C&). We also hold the space for the ancestors: Koyo Kouoh(1967-2025) and Melvin...
Welcome to Makela Space 6. A trip worth taking across time, space and genre as we explore in-between spaces. A Supermarket soundscape with Fufu, Gari and Okra in Freiburg. The pioneering sounds of early West African electronic music to a...
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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...
Welcome to Makela Space 4. Crossing time, space and genre, even as we explore the in-between spaces to include a special Zombie Jamboree!
We’ll be hosting Thomas Sankara and Fela Kuti; sound artist/poet, Moor Mother and Berlin-based Kenyan...
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Step into Makela Space 3 — Polyphonic Interlocking Greetings taking us deep into archival space and the African diaspora. Spinning a kaleidoscope of inputs from Burundi, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Jamaica and the U.S. Here...
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Step into Makela Space 2 — settling deeper into our space with two more amazing contributors we explore ideas and practices regarding the archive and the African diaspora. We’re spinning a kaleidoscope of sounds from South...
