The System of "Nkisi" Forces among the Kongo, as Described in the Third Volume of Laman. Is it possible, on the basis of K. Laman's third volume on the Kongo, to reconstruct the system of thought ...

London-based artist Nkisi is one of the three co-founders of disruptive electronic music label NON Records, along with Chino Amobi in Virginia and ANGEL-HO in Cape Town. The trio recently visited New ...

A new series of events in London called Block Universe will see Nkisi and artist Paul Maheke collaborate at Hoxton Hall later this month. The two artists will come together to produce and present a ...

When Ice Cube Gallery director Sarah Rockett had some extra space at Ingrained, the co-op’s December group show, she decided that it should take a village to fill it. Inspired by her longing to build ...

Wysing Arts Centre have announced the first clutch of names for their annual music festival which takes place later this summer. With Nkisi set to play live and assuming the role of curator for this ...

As a child, Melika Ngombe Kolongo considered herself a nerd. Raised in Belgium, the now London-based Congolese artist and DJ found sanctity in solo listening. “I’ve always just listened to music by ...

A cross-continental blend of record label and social network, NON Worldwide uses the internet to fight back against the silencing of African culture. Its founders discuss how they’re writing a new ...

Following Elena Colombi’s inaugural release in the series, NKISI follows on Climate of Fear’s cassette release series of live sets recorded at their Berlin parties. NKISI’s high-tempo, dark and dirty ...

Before Nkisi co-founded NON Worldwide, an electronic label focused on left-field music from an African and African-diasporic perspective, she was a fan of gabber, a pummeling techno variant popular in ...

We select the best of January’s mixes, including recordings from Terraforma, Mutek Mexico and Panorama Bar Belgian techno, Milanese eccentricity, Finnish ambience and silken Berlin sounds make up ...

Lisa Harris is Curator of Anthropology at the Manchester Museum. She has selected this dramatic African carving said by the Kongo people of Angola to have magical powers. 'It evokes a feeling of awe ...