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Further Considerations on Afrofuturism - Kodwo Eshun

writer, theorist and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun reflects on the histories and trajectories of Afrofuturism and its functions as a genre to imagine new futures, and process the becoming present.

To Accelerate Time: Reflections on Art-Making in Post-invasion Iraq

this piece is a reflection by a group of artists & filmmakers who were part of Sada - a Baghdad-based arts and education project. 

they reflect on the importance and challenges they face in making art through a time of ongoing war.

Black Music Under Apartheid - Atiyyah Khan

accompanied by an audio mix - writer, DJ and journalist, Atiyyah Khan explains how music has been a battlefront for Apartheid South Africa and the Black liberation movement against the white supremacist settler colony.

The Sound of Solidarity

this article profiles Palestine’s Radio Alhara, and their efforts to make radio a sonic public space for communities around the world to share music, express solidarity, and connect in a way that transcends borders and systems of occupation.

Dweller Library

this list - compiled by the New York-based festival and blog that centres black electronic music and perspectives - features articles, interviews, and documentaries surrounding techno, house, and their shared social history. 

Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question [Text & Images]

conceived and produced by the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Palestinian Museum - this project traces the history of modern Palestine, from the end of the Ottoman era to the present. 

offering detailed accounts of milestones & events; biographies of influential people and places that have all shaped Palestinian history.

Radio, Race & Genre in South Africa

produced by artist, researcher and vinyl selector, Zara Julius’ KONJO project - this podcast episode looks at music’s role in the retribalisation project of the apartheid regime.

through the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Bantu, Gallo Music’s African music imprints, and other avenues - this unpacks the impact it had on local conceptions of language, as well as what was deemed “African” music. 

Until Liberation: Learn Palestine

12 hours of lectures, interviews, book presentations, talks, storytelling, music, songs, poetry and chants - compiled by Learning Palestine Group.


Music’s Resistance: Revolution in Daily Life

this video features two talks - Benjamin Piekut’s “Echoes of October - Echoes of May: Listening for Another Future in 1970s London” and Fumi Okiji’s “’Black and blur’: Adorno and the Radicalism of Jazz Syncopation”.

After Robot: Kwaito Music in Johannesburg

as one of the earliest sounds to emerge from black youth, post-Apartheid - this documentary showcases Kwaito’s force as a cultural and social movement in the late 00’s - early 10’s, and the new perspectives it gave for young South Africans to take into the future. 

Have You Heard From Johannesburg?

this documentary by Connie Field looks into the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that opposed South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime. 

Archiving Black Palestinian Solidarity: Visions of Liberation 1968-2021 [Video]

This video is a presentation of archival material on key moments of solidarity between Black American and Palestinian political movements from 1968 to 2021.