The Witch’s Flight

Dr. Zama Dube
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"The Witch’s Flight: In Search of the Black Femme" is adapted from film Scholar, Kara Keeling's study on cinematic representations of the Black femme. The premise of "The Witch's Flight" is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?”. Join Zama Dube on a series of sonic experiments framing AMAPIANO as a map to freedom dreams. Drawing from Afro-diasporic soundscapes, Film & Visual Art, "The Witch's Flight brings the museum, the classroom and the club dance-floor to the radio. The Witch’s Flight is a Black Feminist portal to creative possibilities across the African diaspora.

  1. Sep 22

    Painting the UnRemembered

    For this episode, I will be interviewing two artists: Martese Mixon and Chinedu Victor. In the first hour, we will be in conversation with Chinedu Victor, who is a Lagos-born, Los Angeles-based artist known for his contemporary portraiture that delves into themes of memory, intimacy, identity, and the Black cultural experience. His work employs saturated color, layered texture, and emotionally charged compositions to merge autobiographical narratives with broader cultural reflections, reconstructing personal and collective histories. In the second hour, we speak to Martese Mixon who is a Los Angeles–based contemporary artist and founder of Teseworld. His paintings blend bold color, symbolism, and storytelling to explore themes of identity, resilience, culture, and transformation. Inspired by personal experiences and untold moments throughout Black history, Mixon creates work that encourages reflection, sparks conversation, and reminds viewers that growth often begins in the moments that challenge us most. Each piece is an invitation to look deeper—not only at the canvas, but at ourselves.

    Painting the UnRemembered

  2. Sep 22

    Elsewhere & Otherwise, After Dark in DTLA ART NIGHT

    On this episode we enter the vibrant after-hours world of Downtown Los Angeles for a conversation about DTLA Art Night and the possibilities that emerge when art, nightlife, and community converge. We hear from Art Night Director Sidney Brocious about her vision for creating spaces of cultural exchange, followed by a live conversation with multidisciplinary artist Ziv Sade, whose practice explores identity, queerness, intimacy, beauty, and self-expression. Together, the conversations invite us to consider art as a portal into the elsewhere and otherwise—spaces beyond prescribed ways of seeing, where imagination, visibility, connection, and joy can take shape. Sidney Brocious is a Los Angeles-based creative and cultural producer whose background in nightlife has shaped her understanding of gathering, community, and the power of creating spaces for cultural exchange. As Director of DTLA Art Night, she brings that sensibility into the arts, connecting galleries, artists, and audiences across Downtown Los Angeles for an evening of exhibitions, discovery, and creative connection. Her work sits at the intersection of nightlife, art, and community, inviting us to experience the city—and contemporary art—through a more social, expansive, and after-dark lens. This Friday on The Witch’s Flight, Sidney joins us to talk about her vision for Art Night, the artists and spaces that make it possible, and the possibilities that emerge when art, community, and the city converge. Ziv Sade is an internationally exhibited, self-taught photographer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans portraiture, fashion, editorial, commercial image-making, and mixed media. Beginning his career in Tel Aviv and later expanding his practice to Los Angeles, Sade has spent more than two decades exploring the space between the personal and the public, the intimate and the spectacular. His work centers identity, queerness, beauty, and self-expression, often transforming photography through tactile materials and sculptural interventions. In many ways, Sade’s practice inhabits what I think of as the elsewhere and otherwise: creating visual spaces where people can exist beyond prescribed ways of seeing, and where fantasy, intimacy, visibility, and joy become forms of possibility. Sade is currently one of the artists featured in DTLA Art Night, with his work exhibited at the Braly Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.

    Elsewhere & Otherwise, After Dark in DTLA ART NIGHT

  3. Jul 18

    CheekyChizzy Abuja to Los Angeles Journey of Confucius Music

    In this episode of The Witch’s Flight, Dr. Zama Dube sits down with Abuja-born, Los Angeles-based artist, producer, and sound engineer Cheekychizzy for a conversation that moves beyond the global success of Afrobeats to explore the philosophies that shape his creative practice. Together, they trace his journey from Nigeria to Los Angeles, reflecting on the evolution of his career, the cultural responsibility of creating music across continents, and his concept of “Confucius music”—an artistic approach rooted in storytelling, emotional depth, and meaning.The conversation also explores the spiritual undercurrents woven throughout Cheekychizzy’s work, from the role of prayer, family, and faith in songs like No Worry to the symbolism embedded within his sonic choices. Dr. Dube and Cheekychizzy discuss artistic brotherhood, his collaborations with artists including D’Banj and Burna Boy, the importance of humility in an industry often driven by competition, and the evolving global language of African music. Anchored by his latest single, Wah Wah, this episode offers an intimate portrait of an artist whose work reminds us that rhythm can carry not only movement, but memory, philosophy, and hope.

    CheekyChizzy Abuja to Los Angeles Journey of Confucius Music

  4. May 21

    Shae Universe: On Music, Migration & Becoming

    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 Angeles, Shae reflects on diasporic identity, emotional reinvention, and the inherited interior worlds carried by children of African migration. Moving between music, memory, spirituality, and Black womanhood, the conversation explores softness as a form of resistance, sound as emotional archive, and the complexities of intimacy in contemporary life. Together, Zama and Shae Universe reflect on longing, belonging, sensuality, and the emotional textures that shape Black diasporic artistic practice.

    Shae Universe: On Music, Migration & Becoming

  5. Jan 22

    ASARI AIBANGBEE ON ART, COMMUNITY & RADICAL SOFTNESS

    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 the experiences of Black Queer individuals across the African diaspora, exploring themes of identity, community, and intersectionality. In 2021, they began experimenting with tufting, a medium that became central to their practice in 2023 during their first artist residency, alongside their work with cyanotypes. Their fiber art blends traditional techniques, such as hand tufting with a tufting gun and punch needle, with sustainable yarn and other materials to create intricate compositions. These pieces explore symbols, cultural artifacts, and motifs significant to the Black Queer community, serving as metaphors for broader conversations on identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience.

    ASARI AIBANGBEE ON ART, COMMUNITY & RADICAL SOFTNESS

  6. Jan 22

    WARREN DUNCAN & THE LEGACIES OF JAZZ IN AMAPIANO

    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 instrumentations and amapiano, this mix is a master class in South African soulful amapiano.

    WARREN DUNCAN & THE LEGACIES OF JAZZ IN AMAPIANO

  7. Jan 12

    HOTEP LUXURY: A SONIC JOURNEY WITH MORUF

    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 platform and community space that celebrates Black culture, jazz aesthetics, and artistic expression. Through both his music and multimedia work, MoRuf continues to build a legacy rooted in authenticity, emotional depth, and cultural reverence. MOOLODIC, MoRuf’s latest offering, was recorded between 2021 and 2023 in his Long Island home, with Jesse Boykins III as executive producer & Joshua Kissi as Art Director. Inspired by Q-Tip’s Amplified and J Dilla’s Welcome to Detroit, the album channels what MoRuf calls “hotep luxury” — staying conscious, elevated, and finally allowing himself to embrace nice things. The project is built around community. SZA, a friend since 2011 from their neighboring Jersey towns, appears naturally after years of real connection. Fousheé, a college friend from Kean University, joins alongside Jersey producer Jay Versace. Contributions from Mez and Mick Jenkins came through the creative family surrounding Jesse Boykins III and Joshua Kissi.

    HOTEP LUXURY: A SONIC JOURNEY WITH MORUF

  8. 09/21/2025

    The Rebellion Continues: Towards a Black Caring Gaze

    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 movement of Black filmmakers who came together at UCLA in the late 1960s through the 1980s—Davis helped define a cinematic practice rooted in community, memory, and resistance to Hollywood’s narrow depictions of Black life. Her work carries forward the rebellion’s ethos while also carving out a distinctive space for Black feminist storytelling that is at once experimental, deeply intimate, and politically urgent. Across film, teaching, and mentorship, she has remained committed to expanding the possibilities of Black visual culture, showing us that cinema can be both a site of healing and a form of resistance.

    The Rebellion Continues: Towards a Black Caring Gaze
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"The Witch’s Flight: In Search of the Black Femme" is adapted from film Scholar, Kara Keeling's study on cinematic representations of the Black femme. The premise of "The Witch's Flight" is guided by the question; “What does freedom SOUND like?”. Join Zama Dube on a series of sonic experiments framing AMAPIANO as a map to freedom dreams. Drawing from Afro-diasporic soundscapes, Film & Visual Art, "The Witch's Flight brings the museum, the classroom and the club dance-floor to the radio. The Witch’s Flight is a Black Feminist portal to creative possibilities across the African diaspora.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Zama Dube
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Dr. Zama Dube
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