The Witch’s Flight

On this week’s episode of The Witch’s Flight, Zama Dube sits down with British-Nigerian artist  Shae Universe  for an intimate conversation on migration, creativity, vulnerability, and becoming.  Shae Universe is a singer, songwriter, and sonic storyteller whose music moves fluidly between alternative R&B, soul, jazz, and atmospheric electronic textures. Fresh off her move from London to Los A...

On this episode, we explore Black creative practice across sound and screen—tracing how music, film, and storytelling operate as sites of memory, resistance, and imagination. From creative process to political commitment, this conversation reflects on what it means to make work in dialogue with Black histories while shaping bold, liberated futures. Kwabbie (Kelvin “Kwabbie” Oppong)  is a Los Angel...

This month’s broadcast features Asari Aibangbee. Asari Aibangbee is an interdisciplinary artist, specializing in filmmaking, fiber/textile art, and art curation. Originally from Los Angeles, their artistic journey began in San Francisco, where they founded the collective To Be Black and Queer and established themselves as an independent filmmaker. As a queer Nigerian femme, their work centers on t...

South African-born musician, producer & multi-instrumentalist  Warren Duncan  is rapidly paving his way towards greatness. Warrens musical background includes schools of Jazz, Classical and African Gospel. Duncan’s heart is set on taking his brand of Soulful Amapiano to the world. This mix features exclusive music from his forthcoming amapiano EP; “All Class: Vol. 2”. Blending live jazz instru...

This month’s episode features a special guest and friend of the show, MoRuf. MoRuf Adewunmi is a Nigerian-American rapper, writer, and cultural curator based in Los Angeles. Known for his introspective lyricism and jazz-infused sound, MoRuf blends hip-hop, soul, and personal storytelling to create music that resonates deeply with listeners. He is the founder of Some Jazz Playing, a creative platfo...

Zeinabu Irene Davis is a celebrated director, screenwriter, and professor of Critical Gender Studies and African American Studies at UC San Diego. She is perhaps best known for her films Compensation (1999), A Period Piece (1991), and Cycles(1989), works that center the lives, voices, and imaginations of Black women with a rare tenderness and vision. As part of the legendary L.A. Rebellion—a movem...

On this month’s edition of The Witch’s Flight, Zama Dube is joined by Simphiwe Ndzube. The conversation spans personal biography, grief, sobriety and sourcing from ancestral memory to create a radical visual grammar. Simphiwe Ndzube is a South African visual artist whose work moves between painting, sculpture, and performance with an unmistakable sense of imagination and political depth. Originall...

On this month’s episode, Zama is joined by special guest MoRuf Adewunmi. MoRuf Adewunmi is a Nigerian-American rapper, writer, and cultural curator based in Los Angeles. Known for his introspective lyricism and jazz-infused sound, MoRuf blends hip-hop, soul, and personal storytelling to create music that resonates deeply with listeners. He is the founder of Some Jazz Playing, a creative platform a...

On this month’s episode, host Zama Dube is joined by special guest Monique Ruffin for an in-studio interview. MONIQUE RUFFIN is a renowned astrologer, spiritual advisor, and writer with a deep commitment to guiding others on their personal and spiritual journeys. With years of experience in astrology, Monique has cultivated a unique approach that blends intuitive wisdom with practical insight, hel...

The Witch’s Flight  is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?” Taking heed to this, amapiano becomes a portal and a sonic guide to diverse freedom dreams. The Witch’s Flight is the quest for a Black feminist sensibility structured in a series of sonic experimentations that center South Africa and the larger African diaspora. On this month’s episode, Zama is joined by special guest...

The Witch’s Flight  is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?” Taking heed to this, amapiano becomes a portal and a sonic guide to diverse freedom dreams. The Witch’s Flight is the quest for a Black feminist sensibility structured in a series of sonic experimentations that center South Africa and the larger African diaspora. On this month’s episode, Zama is joined by multidisciplin...

The Witch’s Flight is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?” Taking heed to this, amapiano becomes a portal and a sonic guide to diverse freedom dreams. The Witch’s Flight is the quest for a Black feminist sensibility structured in a series of sonic experimentations that center South Africa and the larger African diaspora. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Olwethu “Olwee” Mlotshwa, b...

The Witch’s Flight  is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?” Taking heed to this, amapiano becomes a portal and a sonic guide to diverse freedom dreams. The Witch’s Flight is the quest for a Black feminist sensibility structured in a series of sonic experimentations that center South Africa and the larger African diaspora. On this month’s episode, Zama will be joined in conversat...

In this episode, we are in conversation with Mpho Sebina who is a Botswana-born and bred melodist, songwriter. She is also a Recording Academy Voting Member who has spread her wings across the music scene over the past couple of years. Her sound is Neo Soul and AfroIndie, performing for small acoustic audiences to large festival stages including Forbes Under 30 Pan African Welcome Celebration host...

This month in celebration of Black History Month, Zama has a special episode lined up honoring personal narratives spanning from Nigeria, South-Africa, Black Los Angeles and beyond. Our astrologer, Monique Ruffin will be joining us for part two of our astrological forecast for 2025. Since we are also celebrating Valentine’s Day month, our astrologer will speak to us about the function of “Venus” w...

In this intimate conversation with director/writer/producer, Akin Omotoso, I demonstrate a Black feminist consideration of the ways in which African filmmakers such as Omotoso contend with gendered and racialized visual histories in order to produce subversive images of Blackness. Omotoso was born to a Barbadian mother and a Nigerian father and had lived in both places before being uprooted go to...