Melbourne-based duo The Merindas are a synthesis of warrior queen, on-trend style of electronic, expressive music dedicated to their cultural heritage and unprecedented on the Australian music scene. Accompanied on stage by the…

Gunnai-Kurnai & Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe joins Areej for a conversation about Pay the Rent - a campaign and movement established to seek justice and reparations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…

On this episode, Areej is joined by Mimo Mukii, filmmaker and creator of I SEE YOU - a platform established in Melbourne, Australia to discuss and celebrate cinema from Africa and the diaspora…

On this episode of The Rap, Areej is joined by Kamilaroi astrophysics student Krystal De Napoli to talk about her research into Indigenous astronomy. Also, Canadian drag artist Weird Alice Yankadic discusses…

Creative producer, storyteller and author Alia Gabres discusses her debut children's book Haboba’s House.

Krystal De Napoli, a Kamilaroi astrophysics student at Monash University, joins the program to give the run-down on her upcoming MPavilion talk, 65,000+ Years of Indigenous Astronomy (on Saturday 8 February). She discusses…

Meet Ripple Effect, an all women's rock band from Maningrida in Arnhem Land. They chat to The Rap fill-in host Samira Farah about how they got started, the origins of the band name…

Canadian lawyer and community organiser Jamil Jivani visits Areej to discuss his new book, Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity. Why is it, he wonders, that it’s almost…

Nairobi-born singer-songwriter J.S. Ondara joins Areej on The Rap to discuss his entry into the world of story-telling through folk music, and perform some songs live on air.

After moving from Kenya to…

Sampa The Great reaches top form on her debut album, The Return, the culmination of the hip-hop proficiency and genre fusion which emerged on previous records ‘The Great Mixtape’ and ‘Birds And…