Produced by Lollise Mbi and Morgan Greenstreet in 2020 We also head to a midnight recording session with young producer Zolasko and singer Naisi Boy and learn the insides of the Botswana music video industry with videographer Jack Bohloko. In this program we hear from Kabelo Mogwe of the popular cultural troupe Culture Spears hip hop star Jujuboy the metal band Skinflint Afro soul singer Mpho Sebina and reformed house kwassa badboy Mingo Touch.
While the biggest star in the country, Franco, packs stadiums with his Congolese-derive d Setswana kwassa kwassa, Vee Mampeezy, Charma Gal and a host of aspiring stars champion a distinctly local fusion called house kwassa: a mix of rumba guitars, house beats and kwaito vocals.
While widely overlooked internationally for their music, over the past 20 years Batswana have steadily built a diverse and fruitful local scene that includes traditional choirs, hip hop and kwaito, R&B and jazz and even heavy metal. Produced by Elodie Maillot.more Episodeīotswana is a large, landlocked country in Southern Africa, a vast stretch of desert and savannah between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia with a population of only 2.2 million. The episode includes interviews with Ibaaku, Blick Bassy, Ikoqwe, Djely Tapa, Shabaka, Mélissa Laveaux, Afrotronix, plus Angélique Kidjo & Yemi Alade. In this episode, we explore this boundless inner space and George Collinet is trans-connected to a futuristic nebula through a patchwork of stories, soundscapes, and various avant-garde music productions from the cosmos and elsewhere.
Nowadays, Afrofuturism is flourishing in Europe and in Africa, constantly revitalized by artists who offer new perspectives to expand our idea of Africa. From the start, Afrofuturism was a child of music, born in the ‘60’s in the boundl ess mind of Sun Ra, and it still shines in today’s music of American artists such as Janelle Monae. The term was originally coined by Mark Dery (an American journalist working for The Washington Post & Rolling Stone). Sometimes music can take you to places you've never imagined! That’s what Afrofuturism does.… Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that explores the intersection of African culture with science fiction, technology and the future, fusing magical realism with the beauty of Africa, beyond the clichés.
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