Throughout this listening party, Daoudi and Jafri will explore the musical, ideological and political intersections of the African Diaspora using the 1969 Festival panafricain d’Alger as a starting point.

Karima Daoudi is the Program Coordinator at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design. In her career supporting a wide variety of cultural programming, Daoudi seeks to highlight issues of social justice, racial equity, and global citizenship. Additionally, she has worked as a radio DJ, a  tour manager for music groups from North and West Africa and was also a Fulbright Scholar in Dakar, Senegal where she researched the intersection of traditional griot culture and the thriving Dakar hip-hop scene.

Asad Ali Jafri is the Curator of Programs at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design. Jafri has worked around the globe as a cultural producer and artist and has been DJ-ing as Man-O-Wax since 2000.