A bilingual podcast in French and English hosted by Saran Koly and produced by Subtile Media. Every Wednesday on subtile.co/waaa, Apple Podcast and Spotify
We Are All Africans is a safe space for Africans with a wide range of backgrounds to discuss their being in a globalized world. So please take a seat and listen. subtile.co/waaa
Abdel means servant of God in Arabic. Abel is the name on his Portuguese papers. Keita (Queta) carries the weight of the thirteenth-century Mali Empire. Tavares is what colonisation left behind. He is made of all four.
Born in Guinea-Bissau and now based between Lisbon and London, Abdel Queta Tavares is a photographer and visual artist. He survived the 1998 civil war at six years old. He saved his school lunch money to buy his first camera at sixteen. A few years after moving to London, he found his own face on every Underground station in the city, part of a Taylor Wessing prize-winning portrait he never knew was being entered.
The red hat came from a carnival shop in Lisbon. The wigs were sold out. He bought the last hat on the shelf. It became his signature, his protection, his way of being seen.
We speak about:
– surviving the civil war and the long return to Bissau– saving lunch money for a pocket camera and learning the city through strangers' faces– the carnival hat his mother quietly approved of– the Black History Month portrait he discovered by accident– building a life as an artist between Lisbon and London– his first solo exhibition and the Portuguese word for voice– what it means to call Africa a prestige
The conversation moves through war, naming, art, recognition and the small objects that protect a self.
Abdel's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abdelkeitatavares/
15 Apr 2026
06. Katia Dansoko Touré : Je viens de tout l'Atlantique noir
Journaliste, mélomane et primo-romancière, Katia Dansoko Touré revient sur une enfance nomade entre les Antilles, l’Afrique de l’Ouest et la France, un renversement de classe brutal, et la manière dont la musique, d’Abdullah Ibrahim à The Pharcyde et l’écriture l’ont aidée à se construire au cœur de ce qu’elle appelle l’Atlantique noir. Une conversation sur les femmes-territoires, le panafricanisme d’aujourd’hui, et ce que cela demande de porter une histoire composite pour en faire, enfin, sa voix fondamentale.
1 Apr 2026
05. Rebeca Omordia Knows the Music Was Already Inside Her
Her name is inherited, given by a father who named her after the aunt who raised him. Omordia is her grandfather's name. She carries both.
Born in Romania to a Nigerian father and trained as a classical pianist under Ceaușescu's communist regime, Rebeca Omordia spent years performing European repertoire before a single social media post cracked something open. A video. A tag. An inbox full of scores by African composers she had never heard.
We speak about:
growing up in Romania where music education was free, rigorous and open to everyone
the viral moment that flooded her inbox with piano scores by Nigerian and African composers
transformation as distinct from unlearning
African art music as authorship, composers writing from their own history, their own language, their own memory
the trance state mid-performance when the body becomes the instrument
building your own path as an African woman
the African Concert Tour, now in its eighth season at Wigmore Hall
The conversation moves through ancestry, belonging and the music already living in the body.
Rebeca's website: https://www.rebecaomordia.com/
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