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12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities

Africa-Asia in Music, Visual, and Performing Arts

Black Indian Ocean? Diasporic Images in Mozambican Rap in Azagaia

Friday, June 13, 2025
16:15 - 18:00 GMT
Location: MFB-Nouvelle Salle

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    Jorge C. Cardoso Filho

    Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil

Paper Abstract: This text is part of a broader investigation on Transoceanic experiences dealing with South Atlantic and and Indian oceans in arts (music, films and literature). Our goal here is to demonstrate that some diasporic images emerges when we look closer to expressive media products, such as clips, of the Mozambican rapper Azagaia in with the Indian Ocean is took as a metaphor for new meanings of the diaspora in contemporary capitalism.