In Malinké, ‘Moya’ signifies social harmony and dignity—that which binds people together and holds them in unity. In Xhosa, the same word denotes both breath, spirit and wind—that which animates, that which flows, that which cannot be grasped but passes through. It is also the word that Xhosa and Zulu choirs used in response to ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ — ‘Yihla Moya’, come down, Breath — a ritual response omitted from the official versions of the South African anthem, but which voices continue, here and there, to echo.

Moya quite aptly expresses what we expect from an audio channel: that it be a place of passage and circulation, a space where the voices of the living settle and meet, where memory emerges from the present and nourishes what is to come.

Moya Station hosts our own audio productions — podcasts, in-depth interviews, field recordings, readings, spoken translations, and other forms yet to be invented. Here we will hear the voices of those who make up Pluriversity: our researchers, our guests, and above all the fields themselves — their breaths, their beats, their rhythms, their identities. Here, we will hear from those who inhabit and bring them to life, who agree to share with us what they know, whether they come from academia or the field. Particular attention will be paid to African oral traditions and the languages that carry them.

Moya Station is hosted on Castopod, a free podcast platform integrated into the Fediverse. This choice is no accident: it extends, within the very infrastructure of our communication, the principle of not entrusting our words to the major extractivist platforms whose business models rely on the capture and commodification of data and the privatisation of attention. The Fediverse — a decentralised network based on open protocols — offers a structural alternative, and communicating from the heart of Pluriversity becomes an act of commitment to the sovereignty of the commons that it defends and implements