Exhibition catalogue

The book Afrosonica – Soundscapes accompanies the exhibition and offers a reflection on listening as a sensory, historical, and political experience. Through essays, interviews, and artistic contributions, the publication explores the dissemination of African sound heritage, its restitution and reactivation, and the connections between music, spirituality, and collective memory.

Contributors 
Niamké Désiré (Aho Ssan), Isabel Garcia Gomez, Abu Qadim Haqq, Satch Hoyt, Joseph Kamaru (KMRU), Madeleine Leclair, Bocar Niang, Pascale Obolo, Uhuru Phalafala, Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), Johnathan Watts

Summary
Foreword, by Madeleine Leclair and Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi)

Restitution and Reactivation of Objects: Overcoming the Wall of Pains. An exchange between Madeleine Leclair, Isabel Garcia Gomez and Bocar Niang

Mapping the Black Body as a Source of Cartographic Sonic Resolve, by Satch Hoyt and Pascale Obolo

Through the Drums of Time. A comic by Abu Qadim Haqq

Decolonial Resonance at the Museum, by Madeleine Leclair

“Just Put Your Music Out”. A conversation between KMRU, Aho Ssan and FLEE

Traces of Love, Traces of Disenchantment: Intersecting Perspectives on a Collection of Lamellaphones, by Isabel Garcia Gomez and Johnathan Watts

The Black Sonic and Radical Dimensions of Ecstasy, by Uhuru Phalafala

Biographies

Endnotes