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Kayefi’s Báòkú: Time and Chance opens in Sheffield with a listening session shaped by experience, instinct and continuity
Kayefi’s Báòkú: Time and Chance opens in Sheffield with a listening session shaped by experience, instinct and continuity

Kayefi hosts a listening party for her upcoming album Báòkú: Time and Chance

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Crown of Blood: Power, Consequence and African Cosmology on the British Stage
Crown of Blood: Power, Consequence and African Cosmology on the British Stage

Patrice Naimbana - Crown of Blood

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Inside Crown of Blood: Music Director Kayefi Osha on the Music in the Play
Inside Crown of Blood: Music Director Kayefi Osha on the Music in the Play

Kayefi Osha, Music Director with cast and crew of Crown of Blood

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DJ MYNA | Rhythm, Resistance and Reclamation on the Decks
DJ MYNA | Rhythm, Resistance and Reclamation on the Decks

In this exciting episode of African Voices Platform TV, host Tchiyiwe Chihana welcomes the remarkable DJ MYNA, also known as Amina, a dynamic DJ and cultural curator shaping Sheffield’s sonic and cultural landscape. As the founder of Calabash!, a platform dedicated to Afro-diasporic sounds, DJ MYNA fuses music with community care and cultural memory in powerful, immersive ways

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African Voices Platform is participating in Showcasing Sheffield: Bridging the Gap, supporting the organisation’s next stage of development and long-term resilience.

The Showcasing Sheffield project is funded through the Local Growth Fund and is supported and part funded by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA).