Mabousso Station is Pluriversité’s music curatorial space. We see music as a space for connection and sensitivity, for memory and narrative, and therefore as a form of knowledge production and transmission in its own right. Building our playlists means repositioning stories in the places where they belong, reviving constructions and deconstructions, and recognising that music has the full power to analyse, to make claims and to displace. Each playlist accompanies a dedicated publication enriched with its bibliography, and thus constitutes an editorial object.

We chose Deezer as our host port because’it is one of the few platforms accessible from French-speaking Africa, where Pluriversity is rooted. This criterion of geographical accessibility reveals that the platforms presented in the global North as the most ethical often exclude audiences in the global South by virtue of their service geography. Choosing a platform that can also be accessed from our own spaces means refusing to allow Pluriversity to depend on an infrastructure that reproduces the exclusions it seeks to address. Moreover, among the accessible players, Deezer offers artists fairer remuneration than the dominant platforms.

From this port, we link each track to the listening platform of your choice. So you can listen according to your habits, your subscriptions and your commitments. The curatorial gesture remains that of Pluriversity; listening, on the other hand, is up to you – and with it, the choice of conditions under which you support the artists we highlight.

Album covers reproduced for editorial purposes. All rights reserved to their respective owners.