Pius Jonas Vögele

University of Basel

Pius Jonas Vögele is a PhD candidate at the University of Basel and affiliate of the Center for African Studies (ZASB). His dissertation project is concerned with how historical and futuristic narratives are reimagined in hip-hop’s sonic fictions. He has published on Yugen Blakrok in Comparative Critical Studies (2022) and in the edited volume Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories. Resistant Imaginaries Between Margins and Mainstreams (2023), initially published as a special issue in the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. He is also a Hip Hop activist as MC, DJ and radio host.