The WP11 – Multilingual Arts, Creative Resistance and Wellbeing Work Package – undertook a detailed review of the published, extant literature on arts, language and culture and migration in each of the countries and corridors in the MIDEQ research design.

The team chose to record their work as a podcast as part of their work of both accessibility and creative resistance. Podcasting allows for mobility and fits with migratory dynamics of the body and mind. Listening and aural methods are also those which have been underprivileged in migration studies, compared to visual methods.

Inequalities, Arts and Culture in Migration Studies

Afamba apota is a Zimbabwean proverb recited to remind ourselves of the unpredictability of going on a journey. This radio play is a playful look at the important matter of migration. Join self-proclaimed master documentary maker Paul Lamont as he enters the migration corridor and meets the inhabitants.

Afamba Apota

In this conversation between Bonayi Hubert Dabiré and Alison Phipps, we hear Dabiré describe the objects he has chosen to bring to this element of our work.

He describes these first of all in his mother language - ‘sa langue maternelle’ - Bambara

He then describes these in French, his working language.

He speaks of the ‘calabasse’ - the calabash – Fiè; and ‘le tissu’ - Fani

You can learn more at https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/objects-series-burkina-faso/

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