À l’occasion du 60e anniversaire de la mort de Malcolm X, retour sur l'hommage révolutionnaire rendu à l’époque par la musique jazz à ce pilier de la lutte pour les droits civiques.
- Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
Music is an underutilised tool when it comes to steering curricula away from strictly Western and colonial models.
A crate digger essentially builds a personal library of sonic texts that often can’t be found on the internet or in official archives.
The protest song “Malcolm’s gone” not only pays tribute to one of the most influential black leaders, but provocatively likens him, as a Muslim and so-called enemy of the state, to Jesus Christ.
Something really magical is happening at the intersection between jazz and hip-hop at the moment. Many of the artists involved will be playing at Africa’s foremost jazz festival.
In a gloomy year filled, a number of artists with an Afrofuturist perspective gave hope with inspired works of art.
The Congolese album ‘Nangadeef’ remains largely unexplored, despite its genius. As a rich repository of Afrofuturistic data, it deserves to be delved into by lovers of African art.
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