1) Chronicling the array of elements and networks of exchanges that shape its ever-widening creative capacities and reference points, explore the complexities of ‘Music of the African Diaspora’.

2) Examine, with subtleties, how intricate exchanges between music genres, generational shifts, and social formations engender unique expressions of cultural hybridity in Afro-beats and Hiplife.

3) Analyze the eclectic currents of Soukous and Kwaito, citing each genre’s multilayered connections to indigenous cultural forms and subtle exchanges with global cultural flows.