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Mixing traditional African instruments like the ngoni and kora with modern electronic production techniques. Words by Graeme Green.

Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels; Les Égarés.

Being; The Land, the Water, the Sky.

Bangladesh-born musician. Words by Subi Shah.

White Juju; This Stupid World.

The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience; $/He Who Feeds You... Owns You.

All of Us in Flames; Afar Ways.

Tresor; Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore.

Strike; РАЗОМ ЗА УКРАЇНУ/Together for Ukraine;

Bahía by Ana Carla Maza; Ghost Song by Cécile McLorin Salvant.

Let My Country Awake; Shanu.

Subi Shah interviews 13 year-old Erica Armah-Bra Bulu Tandoh, aka DJ Switch.

Still Moving by Justin Adams and Mauro Durante; El Amor No Es Para Los Débiles by Bareto.

Folk music royalty Peggy Seeger speaks to Louise Gray about her life, her music, and her political activism.

Drawing Life by Jocelyn Pook; K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us by Xhosa Cole.

Similar & Different by Dal:um; Sankofa by Amaro Freitas.

They’re Calling Me Home by Rhiannon Giddens; Big Science by Laurie Anderson.

Creative Contradiction: Poetry, Story, Song & Sound by Maggie Nicols; El Hal by Electric Jalaba

Freedom by Yvette Janine Jackson; Kologo by Alostmen.

Uprize! by Spaza; Zan by Liraz.