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Jumoke Adeyanju is an interdisciplinary multilingual poet, curator, dancer, vinyl selector and aspiring sound artist under the alias mokeyanju. Her work touches on topics like (diasporic) memory, spiritual liminal spaces and sonic tonalities. Adeyanju’s multidimensional sound, words and movement art has been commissioned and presented by Arthouse Foundation Lagos, AAF Lagos, 16/16, Galerie Wedding, CUNY NYC, Kölnischer Kunstverein, African Crossroads Mombasa and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Her work has been shown at various occasions in Germany, Tanzania, Kenya, UK, Nigeria and New York – performing her poems in English, German, Kiswahili and Yorùbá. Adeyanju is the founder of The Poetry Meets Series, co-curator of SensiDance and hosts her own radio show sauti ya àkókò on Refuge Worldwide. Her poetry and translation work was published in the anthology “Kontinentaldrift – Das Schwarze Europa” (ed. Fiston Mwanza Mujila) in 2021. Adeyanju’s live-writing was also featured in award-winning filmmaker Baff Akoto’s short Leave the Edges (2020).
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On Art and Activism
When we arrived at the Performa space to meet with Zanele, she was running an hour behind - not unusual in New York. When she did arrive, she apologized profusely, and my editor said she understood because she’s known many artists - here, Zanele stopped her.
“I’m not an artist,” she said, “I’m an activist.”
What is the gay scene like in South Africa?
It was at this point that Zanele insisted Odi Diva join us, to answer this question and accompany her in the interview. There was some confusion, as Odi was in the bathroom starting her makeup. She happily sat down with us and chatted in her lovely South African accent.
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