The Museum of Black Futures podcast takes you on a journey through radical imagination, decolonial storytelling, repatriation and the ethics of building a museum for our emancipation. What does it mean to create a cultural institution rooted in Black resilience, and joy? In every episode, host Richard Kofi and his guests tackle the moral, ethical, and practical dilemmas of building The Museum of Black Futures. From the complexities of restitution and collecting to the question of how our museums can truly serve the communities it represents.
Host Marcellino van Callias interviews interdisciplinary artist Djuwa Mroivili about embodying reparations through music, performance, and ritual.
11 Aug 2025
BF-63-18: Ancestral Futures Recipes
Host Femi Dawkins interviews chef, author, and food activist Lelani Lewis about how ancestral foodways foster spiritual reparations and rematriation.
11 Aug 2025
BF-304-13: To start, to create, to embody
South African soprano Ashely Stapelfeldt and Kimberley Smit, leader of The Need for Legacy, discuss reparations and healing in theatre history, interviewing each other.
8 Aug 2025
BF-220-14: Unlocking Portals Within
Ingrid LaFleur, cultural strategist, discusses how museums perpetuate Western concepts of linear time and memory, advocating for non-linear perspectives rooted in African traditions in this interview.
8 Aug 2025
BF-462-9: On Spiritual Reparations
Artist Femi Dawkins, interviewed by the Museum of Black Futures, explores spiritual reparations as a decolonial practice that restores spiritual balance by returning cultural property to its rightful owners.
8 Aug 2025
BF-160-150: What's in a Name?
Richard Kofi and Simone Zeefuik discuss the evolution of the Museum of Black Futures, exploring its conceptual origins and its mission to cultivate Black joy and justice, in an interview with Femi Dawkins.
8 Aug 2025
BF-99-1: Making Meaning
The Museum of Black Futures podcast explores the concept of museums beyond Western definitions, as Patty Anahoy discusses embracing non-linear time and African cosmology to center heritage and liberate from mental constraints in this interview.
8 Aug 2025
BF-517-1: Mining the Archive, Mind the Gap
Artist Billy Gerard Frank explores the complexities of collecting and archiving within the context of colonial extraction and reclaiming Black stories in an interview with the host.
10 Apr 2025
1: Billy Gerard Frank
Our first guest is Billy Gérard Frank, a Grenada-born, New York-based multimedia artist, filmmaker, and modern-day abolitionist. Together, we unpack the colonial history of collecting and explore how imagination and speculation can help us turn the act of archiving into a tool for liberation.
The music and sound effects in this episode are made by the wonderful recording artists Oshunmare and Bahghi.
9 Apr 2025
0: Introducing The Museum of Black Futures
Finally, the moment has arrived. After years of legal battles, political negotiations, and fierce protests from activist groups, an agreement has finally been reached on reparations to compensate for colonial exploitation, human trafficking, and slavery. A group of Afro-Europeans has decided to invest their share of the payments in a unique museum project: The Museum of Black Futures.
Since we released this statement we're organizing vibrant programs, performances, lectures, and discussions trying to ignite the imagination and questions what the term 'museum' really means nowadays. And what does it mean to center Blackness within such a Eurocentric concept?
Every contribution is archived in a podcast and will eventually find a home in the new museum. How do we ensure the focus is shared among the diverse Afro-diasporic communities? And how do we make space for our past in a museum that looks towards the future?
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