My essay, 'Songs for the Future', on Askia Touré's Songhai! and the African American epic, is out now in Paideuma, Vol.48, as part of a special tribute to issue to Touré's book that also includes essays by Addison Gayle, Jim Smethurst, and Kathy Lou Schultz. Many thanks to Ben Friedlander and Betsy Rose.
The UK reprint of Songhai! will be out soon from Materials.
A review of the Fred Moten/Brandon López/ Gerald Cleaver show at Cafe Oto in Artforum here, with some words on Candace Hill's phenomenal reading the same afternoon along the way.
Review of Jason Moran's superb James Reece Europe tribute From the Dancehall to the Battlefield in The Wire 471.
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