Cacti Monologues

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 Block 3, Mboma Rd, Gaborone 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 (African Poetry Book) 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