BLK TMRWS/AFRICAN FUTURES.

BLK TMRWS/AFRICAN FUTURES is a weekly radio show hosted by Kayodeine focussing on how the actions of artists and activists within our communities are shaping our collective future. BLK TMRWS airs Fridays 8PM GMT.

 

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT.

Community Spotlight is a podcast shining a light on people at all levels of our community that are doing the work for the benefit of all.

 

DUPPY CONQUERORS.

Duppy Conquerors is a 10-part series exploring the history of Jamaican Maroons with the UK’s foremost expert Dr Michael Siva. Not simply a recounting of the history, the shows (and the accompanying project) aim to highlight practical lessons from maroon history that can benefit us today.

 

JAMAICAN PARLIAMENT AUDIO DATABASE.

The Jamaican Parliament Audio database (JPAD) is a memory project by dj afifa investigating how music and the sound environment can affect rememberance and forgetting. The database is a collection of audio from sittings of the house of parliament in Jamaica from 2017 to present. Audio from the database is taken from coverage by the Public broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ). Excerpts from the database are broadcast on DTA.LIVE radio Wednesdays 3PM GMT. 

[Visit the JPAD Project Mixcloud for more episodes]
 

MANGROVE 9: THE NEXT GENERATION.

Mangrove 9: The Next Generation is a weekly show hosted by Jamila Bolton-Gordon and Yinka Inniss-Charles, both descendants of members of the Mangrove 9. The show explores the story of the historic trial and its key actors, reflecting on its impact on the issue of racial equality in the present day. Mangrove 9: The Next Generation airs Saturdays at 7pm GMT.

 

ROOTS TONIC.

Roots Tonic is an occasional podcast looking at traditional healing methods practiced by people of African heritage. It considers the way these technologies have been passed from generation to generation, resisting imperial attempts at suppression and exploitation at every turn.

 

SPECIALS

One-off special shows for your listening pleasure.

 

THE SUNSCREEN CONSPIRACY

 

THE TIMECODE.

The Timecode is a podcast focussing on music sound and memory. Music has always been a central part of the African/disaporic experience. The podcast explores how music, and the activities surrounding propagate and preserve our cultural legacies.

 

The universe is a union of diversity - implying that one size cannot fit all. In a time when it was still possible to talk to someone face to face without the help of zoom, DTA.LIVE caught up with Dr Stanley Griffin at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, to find out more about how Caribbean memory workers are developing methodologies for recognising, preserving and sharing history that makes sense to their communities.

LEGACY SHOWS.

These podcasts were created at the beginning of our journey into audio, before the DTA.LIVE radio platform existed. They cover a range of issues including decolonial film, theatre, visual art, data and memory.

David Gilbert is a director and theatre maker from Zimbabwe. He has assisted many large productions and directed smaller projects in young companies across London for the likes of Tricycle Theatre, Young Vic, Almeida Theatre, Halfmoon Theatre, London Bubble and Company Three (previously Islington Community Theatre).

Picking up where we left of last cast, we're still meditating on Hero, but this time with Director Frances-Anne Solomon. Discussing being part of the 'born free' generation, adopting a decolonial approach to writing and directing film and channeling George Padmore, we're not exaggerating when we say that this one is lit.

Frances-Anne Solomon's 'Hero' is an inspiration to us. From its depiction of a critical stage in the Pan-African struggle to its juxtaposition of archival material with dramatic sequences, there is a lot to talk about.

Designed by Pierre-Christophe Gam, "Sankara, The Upright Man" is a mix-media installation offering an apocryphal retelling of the life of Thomas Sankara, the late president of Burkina Faso. The work can be found here: https://www.pierre-christophe.com/the-upright-man Thomas Sankara was a military captain, a humanist, a pan-Africanist, an ecologist and a feminist who served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983, until his death in 1987, at 37 years old.

Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website in the world, yet there are more articles on the Netherlands alone than the whole of the African continent! Is it time we rebalanced the scales? Open knowledge advocate and award-winning Wikipedian Kelly Foster shares her thoughts on why people of African heritage should consider editing Wikipedia.

DTA's mission is to deprogram the understanding of history and culture we learnt during colonisation and enslavement and replace it with a holistic understanding of what our history is, and what its function is in our lives. As part of our recent Sirius B detoxification program we have been working with the powerful visual artist Fowokan.

Professor Carolyn Cooper is a giant in her field. A pan-africanist scholar- activist of international standing whose work both celebrates and critically analyses of the popular culture of her home country Jamaica. In this episode (named after Professor Cooper's first book), the wonders of the internet allow Etienne and Connie of DTA to catch up with Carolyn in transit between Ghana and Jamaica.