Pan African Space Station

Pan African Space Station isn't your typical radio. It's a sprawling, adventurous mix of sounds from across the continent and its diaspora. I spent a week tuning in, and the playlist defied easy categorization. One afternoon featured a rare recording of South African jazz from the 1960s - think Abdullah Ibrahim. The next segment jumped to contemporary electronic from Nyege Nyege artists in Kampala. Then a spoken word piece from a Zimbabwean poet. It can be jarring. That's the point. The station feels like a curated gallery of African music history and future. This is music radio South Africa a…