‘African people are surreal’: songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare

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Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based musician is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmic exploitation Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based musician is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmic exploitation ‘F or many years, I’ve called myself a surrealist blues poet,” says