The African Imaginary Podcast
The African Imaginary Podcast explores how being born and raised in Africa shapes the imagination and creativity of the continent's top creators. Host Khangi Khoza engages in deep conversations with writers, musicians, artists, and business builders. The podcast aims to help listeners connect with their own imaginations and reminds us of our shared humanity rooted in Africa.
Episodes
M.anifest: The rapper raised by Ghana's greatest minds breaks it down
In our ninth episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza talks to Ghanaian rapper M.anifest about hip hop history, how Kwame Nkrumah created the Pan-African soul of Ghana, and why a quality life comes from being "surrounded by a broad spectrum of good human beings". Follow M.anifest on Instagram Follow us on Instagram Read the essay by editor-in-chief of BLACKSTAR Haus, Valerie Am
Wanuri Kahiu: The filmmaker redefining what African stories are allowed to be
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu dive into Kikuyu naming and giving birth to your ancestors, the management degree her parents demanded before film school, Afrobubblegum and the right to make fun, fierce and frivolous African art, banning Rafiki and taking the state to court, directing Washington Black across three continents, hope as a
Bongeziwe Mabandla: The voice that took isiXhosa folk global
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and musician Bongeziwe Mabandla dive into a childhood in rural Tsolo with trees for an audience, the mother who quietly bought the crayons and the guitar, sensitivity and depression and getting paid to feel, the health scare that reframed everything, his long partnership with producer Tiago Correia-Paulo, singing in isiXhosa to ro
Sunny Dolat: The fashion thinker changing how the world sees African style
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and curator Sunny Dolat dive into a Nairobi childhood held by four aunts and a grandmother, Maasai naming and the children who wait for a name, The Nest Collective and the film Kenya banned, waste colonialism and the secondhand clothing bales, indigenous vocabularies of sustainability, fashion as the architecture of the body, and
Fatoumata Diawara: Inside the wild world of Mali's bravest voice
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and musician Fatoumata Diawara dive into making her own stage clothes and the rhythm of the sewing machine, the trance states she calls her madness, fleeing an arranged marriage at nineteen and teaching herself guitar on stage, recording with Herbie Hancock, singing about female genital mutilation and albinism, the anthem she buil
Blinky Bill: the African music scene's coolest philosopher
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and musician Blinky Bill dive into the cartoon behind his stage name, the Congolese and Southern African records that raised him, the fight with his parents over leaving sport science for music, Just A Band and the video that became East Africa's first viral hit, AI music and being human as an act of resistance, fashion as an exte
Justin Letschert: The man behind the Bio-Oil phenomenon
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and entrepreneur Justin Letschert dive into buying Bio-Oil in 2000 with no skincare knowledge, why the industry abandoned oil and how it came back, the Japan launch that tested South African quality, turning down the multinationals, his 'roots and tree' theory of creativity and mistakes, Africa as a roots continent, and more. Rea
Msaki: An artist's philosophy on the modern music industry and the role of the artist
In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and musician Msaki dive into the layered meaning of her names, the icons who set her standard, owning your masters and protecting the soul of a song, burnout and the art residency that reset her practice, building pan-African infrastructure through Alt Black Continua, and more. Read the companion essay on Substack Follow us on In
Tsitsi Dangarembga: The queen of African literature speaks
In this, our first episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga dive into the importance of the African imagination, Tsitsi's African icons, spirituality in her later writing, advice to writers, and more. Read the companion essay on Substack Follow us on Instagram Follow Tsitsi Dangarembga on Instagram Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of Africa's key litera
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