‘First drafts are a pie where all the components have been cooked most of the way through, but you’ve gotta put it in the oven for it to become worthy of your guests.’ Wasafiri Wonders with KUCHENGA.

‘When I am writing I need to feel removed from my body and myself and what I think it knows. I want to enter what I call “the poetic mind”. When I am in that space, time moves differently.’  Wasafiri Wonders with Nick Makoha.

‘Ezili’s Mirrors is a song written in a time signature I am not used to, nor do I find it easy to follow. This time signature requires Tinsley’s reader-listeners to be at home in, and to be willingly led, by a temporal discordance that is black, queer and decolonial.’ Reviewed by Imani Robinson

‘Don’t write what you know (boring advice). Write what you want to find out, what you want to know, what you don’t know, what you are curious about.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

‘Grief is as much of a universal language as music is.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Young People’s Laureate for London Theresa Lola

Sisonke Msimang speaks to Wasafiri about storytelling and social justice, the concept of ‘a single story’, and South-South connections.