Jumoke Adeyanju aka mokeyanju (Berlin)
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| free admission |
| no ticket required |
| In case of increased visitor numbers, there may be waiting times or stop at the admission. |
| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
| Belongs to: DURCHLÜFTEN 2025 |
Jumoke Adeyanju aka mokeyanju is an interdisciplinary multilingual author, dancer, vinyl selector and aspiring sound artist. She is the founder of The Poetry Meets Series, and hosts her own radio show Sauti ya àkókò on Refuge Worldwide. She is heavily influenced by Detroit’s Hip Hop legacy, Fújì, Highlife, Ndombolo, House and percussion-based music. Her broad interest in East African and Caribbean culture led her to collect records from Trinidad & Tobago, Tanzania, Kenya, Congo and beyond – coming across the trajectories of calypso, taarab, benga, soukous, rumba as well as contemporary electronic sounds. mokeyanju’s music palette is borderless: ranging from Japanese jazz to Somali disco, leaving the dancers floored by her unique mixes.
As a frequent host of Refuge Worldwide’s Breakfast Show, her eclectic taste spans genres including Dilla-inspired hip hop beats, indigenous folk music, alternative ambient soundscapes, jazz-infused afrobeat, soul, and deep house. mokeyanju has played memorable sets in Johannesburg, Lagos, Accra, Brooklyn/NY, Point Fortin (Trinidad), Mombasa, Nairobi and stints at DURCHLÜFTEN, HÖR (Berlin), HKW (Berlin), LOCH (Wuppertal), Whitespace (Lagos), Odonien (Köln), to name a few.