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Tania Safura Adam (Maputo, Mozambique, 1979) is a curator and researcher. She is the founder of and editor at Radio Africa, a cultural platform for critical thinking and dissemination of Black arts and cultures. Her work explores Black diasporas, migrations and African music. She has curated the exhibitions “Microhistories of the Diaspora: ‘Embodied’ Experiences of Female Dispersion” (La Virreina 2018-2019) and “Blue Black Futures” (MACBA, 2022). She spearheaded the activities program for “Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design” (CCCB, 2016).

Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Africa(na)s: Historias para el siglo XXI (2709 books, 2023) and in Concreta 22: «Maternidad: Un sufrimiento exquisite» (Concreta, 2023). She is currently leading the research project España Negra. Viaje hacia la negritud en el espacio-tiempo (Museo Reina Sofía, MACBA, Artium, CCCB, IVAM), the Iberian Black Studies Research Group at the Museo Reina Sofia, and the program “Radio Africa” on Betevé.

She recently published Voces negras: una historia oral de las músicas populares africanas (Malpaso, 2024).

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Tania Safura ADAM

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Tania Safura Adam (Maputo, Mozambique, 1979) is a curator and researcher. She is the founder of and editor at Radio Africa, a cultural platform for critical thinking and dissemination of Black arts and cultures. Her work explores Black diasporas, migrations and African music. She has curated the exhibitions “Microhistories of the Diaspora: ‘Embodied’ Experiences of Female Dispersion” (La Virreina 2018-2019) and “Blue Black Futures” (MACBA, 2022). She spearheaded the activities program for “Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design” (CCCB, 2016).

Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Africa(na)s: Historias para el siglo XXI (2709 books, 2023) and in Concreta 22: «Maternidad: Un sufrimiento exquisite» (Concreta, 2023). She is currently leading the research project España Negra. Viaje hacia la negritud en el espacio-tiempo (Museo Reina Sofía, MACBA, Artium, CCCB, IVAM), the Iberian Black Studies Research Group at the Museo Reina Sofia, and the program “Radio Africa” on Betevé.

She recently published Voces negras: una historia oral de las músicas populares africanas (Malpaso, 2024).

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