PERFORM! is an itinerant cultural space for the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of performing arts from Africa and diasporas. Online, PERFORM! will distill capsules of inspiration, incorporate historical reminders, and promote the celebration of talented artists who have either been forgotten, or lacked an opportunity for exposure. On paper, a colorful, cultural journal will mirror the memory and serve as a transmission of performing arts.

This second issue of PERFORM! dives into the pulse of contemporary African performance: from Kampala to Abidjan, Paris to Jinja. It captures a generation of women DJs, curators, and artists reshaping how sound, movement, and identity travel across borders. Through intimate portraits, essays, and photo stories, PERFORM! celebrates the power of performance as both resistance and renewal, a living archive where rhythm becomes language and every body tells its own story.