Name: Transition on the Wire: Interview with will.i.am by Transition on the Wire
Duration: 57 min 38 s
Description: Sarah Ladipo Manyika sits down with "dibbler-dabbler, hypercreative" will.i.am to hear his powerful insights on human connection and empathy. Get a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into will.i.am's global travels, the wisdom of his mother, and his early adoption of AI. A must-listen companion to our new SPECIES issue, which drops tomorrow!

Broadcast-performance for the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Digital-Now Fellowship, originally aired 15 December 2021

This broadcast - the first in a project extending into 2023 - explores questions of what constitutes the ‘digital’ in relation to African Space Programmes, and programmes which restructure and reconstitute space and time in Africa. Taking an expanded view of both the digital and Space technology through Chimurenga music - in this case, primarily by Thomas Mapfumo but also including A Tribe Called Quest and Amiri Baraka - this episode explores the 'technics' (Simone, 2021), bluffs, tricks, and whisper networks through which sound extended the liberation struggle into other atmospheric registers in Zimbabwe; spaces that were both intimately connected to the land whilst simultaneously sub- and supra-terrestrial too.

Gratitude and credit to all tracks, interviews and recordings sampled in this piece, including:
- Cal Tjader, "Aquarius"
- A Tribe Called Quest, “Midnight Marauders Tour Guide”
- Thomas Mapfumo, “Mapfumo Speaks: Hallelujah”
- Thomas Mapfumo, “Mapfumo Speaks: Mr Smith”
- Thomas Mapfumo, “Gwindingwe Rine Shumba”
- Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Ngoma Yarira
- Amiri Baraka, “Nation Time”
- James Brown & The Famous Flames, “Money Wont Change You - Pt. 1”
- Edward George in The Last Angel of History, dir. John Akomfrah
- Abdoumaliq Simone, extracts from a seminar at IAPSIS Stockholm, Dec 6, 2021

Mhondoro Marauders Show_Episode 1_The Digital Now - The Changing Same

Sarah Ladipo Manyika interviews Bernardine Evaristo in our inaugural podcast.

Transition on the Wire: Interview with Bernardine Evaristo

Sarah Ladipo Manyika sits down with "dibbler-dabbler, hypercreative" will.i.am to hear his powerful insights on human connection and empathy. Get a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into will.i.am's global travels, the wisdom of his mother, and his early adoption of AI. A must-listen companion to our new SPECIES issue, which drops tomorrow!

Transition on the Wire: Interview with will.i.am

Sarah Ladipo Manyika sits down with acting legend Delroy Lindo to explore his remarkable career across stage, TV, and film. Listeners get an intimate behind-the-scenes look as Lindo shares candid insights into his creative process embodying diverse, complex characters, plus a fascinating discussion on his upcoming memoir. As a person raised in England of African heritage and Caribbean descent, Lindo reflects on his uniquely American story. Filled with wisdom, humor and humility, this episode offers a rare window into the mind of a true acting icon.

Transition on the Wire - Interview with Delroy Lindo

TRANSITION ON THE WIRE is the podcast of TRANSITION MAGAZINE, the  historic literary and cultural magazine of the African Diaspora, born in postcolonial Africa in the sixties and bred in the US under the aegis of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. 

Please visit us at: 

https://transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/

Transition on the Wire: Interview with will.i.am

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