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‘African people are surreal’: songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare


Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based artist is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmic exploitation

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