“In our last season of Africa Is a Country Radio, we explored the idea of international blackness with music and interviews on black identity from the United States to Latin America to Europe. It was recorded in conjunction with my work on the INTL BLK platform and featured several friends and collaborators in Los Angeles. After a few months break, we are now back with a new season and a new home, London-based web radio station Worldwide FM. This season’s theme will take inspiration from Paul Gilroy who suggests that to understand black culture we must look its routes of exchange, rather than its perceived roots of origin, and how hybridity and the navigation of empire have shaped modernity, nationality, and identity in the world today. Our focus will be port cities as connecting nodes in the international network of cultural exchange that is the Black Atlantic. Each month we will take a deeper dive into the music and cultural politics of a different port city on the African continent. ...”
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