Make things. Make your way to the things that others have made. Make theories of your own.

- Ahmir Thompson

TRACKLIST:

I. i

II. Dreams

III. Eggshells

IV. Mañana

V. Fuchsia

VI. Uprising

VII. 22/4

VIII. Hippo.

IX. Faux-travels

a hopeful imagination

TRACKLIST:

I. Nomalidzwe

II. we rebuild swallow slow

III. coil of time

IV. the silence of the wilting skin

V. hear my cry, hear my call

produced in Gaborone, Botswana

artwork by Phemo A. Motshweneng

Reference Material

01. Kwei Armah / Our Awakening https://youtu.be/-R0nmkPKmGk

02. Tatiana Nascimento - Malembe https://youtu.be/gXsjYxbFNcU

03. Kodwo Eshun - (Goldsmiths The / Otolith Group) Public Asset Conference https://youtu.be/Zfs-yQqvlA4

04. After Year Zero - Geographies of Collaboration since 1945 | Interview with Kodwo Eshun https://youtu.be/Wx_BvPxYDjY

05. Luedji Luna - Dentro Ali, Oraao ao Tempo Sou Filho da Cobra Verde https://youtu.be/3pYK_84qYp0

06. Sibongile Khumalo Performing Untold Stories, Live @ The State Theatre https://youtu.be/CBMXb5V7kiU

07. ARTSpeak: Wangechi Mutu https://youtu.be/_vUTXaBiR8I

08. ahellil https://youtu.be/h693EHA5rWA

09. Skizo - Jindi Snayi https://youtu.be/a73vLxhLTDs

10. Faces of Africa - Living the Chimurenga Life https://youtu.be/KAsxEhYf7eY

11. Pierre Akendengue - Ekewa, Sarraounia OST 1986

12. Pierre Akendengue - Sarraounia (version flŭte), Sarraounia OST 1986

13. Bonga - Kamusekele, Kandandu 1980

14. Jali Musa Jawara - Yekeke, Yasimika 1990

15. Oliver Mutukudzi - Yorire Ngoma, Zvauya Sei? 1986

16. Ytasha Womack - Afrofuturism Imagination and Humanity https://youtu.be/xlF90sXVfKk

17. Pierce Gordon, Ph.D. | How to Define Innovation. It’s not as cut and dry as you think.

https://medium.com/designlimitsand/how-to-define-innovation-7d377b1d69b6

18. Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 by Keorapetse Kgositsile, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (Editor), Uhuru Portia Phalafala (Editor)

19. Tlotlo Tsamase, The Silence of the Wilting Skin 2020

20. Thomas A. Dorsey, Precious Lord, Take My Hand 1932

Memorial

inspired by Mural, Mahmoud Darwish's collection of poetry.

TRACKLIST:

I. Mural

II. feelings wear cloaks

III. flowers in a riot

IV. with memory & places

V. in the wind we can't be told apart

VI. is this how language dies?

VII. Make sparks in the mirage!

Kgakala le Legae

contextualizing the unseen & unheard

elegy of the wind

elegy of the wind

elegy of the wind

elegy of the wind