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This Month

Ntone Edjabe, MIT Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence, Interviewed Live on WMBR's Africa Kabisa Program

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Ntone Edjabe, South African-based writer, publisher, and DJ will be interviewed live by host Julia Goldrosen starting at 4pm. Edjabe, who has been visiting MIT this month as an Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence, is the founding editor of Chimurenga ("struggle" from the Shona word from Zimbabwe), a non-profit pan-African journal of writing, art and politics. His writing, mostly on arts and culture, has appeared in Politique Africaine, L'Autre Afrique, BBC Focus on Africa and various South African newspapers and magazines. Currently a resident of Cape Town, the Cameroonian born journalist/musician co-hosts "Soul Makossa," a weekly show on Bush Radio in Cape Town. He's also a founding member of the Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem, a collective of DJs and musicians, and he manages the Pan African Market, a trade and cultural center in Cape Town. Edjabe will be giving a public lecture entitled "Chimurenga, Felasophy* and the Quest for Lightness in the new South Africa," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Room N52-337 at 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. More information is here.

Location: 88.1 FM

For more information about this event, contact:
Julia Goldrosen
africa@wmbr.org
617-253-4000

Visit: http://www.africakabisa.org