{"id":9682,"date":"2026-06-18T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:05:11","slug":"watch-our-panel-at-the-music-is-black-festival-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9682","title":{"rendered":"Watch our panel at The Music is Black Festival! | Video | News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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At the start of June, we hosted a very special panel evening at The Music is Black Festival<\/strong>and you can now find out what went down with a special feature from UCL East.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosted by Academic-in-Residence Dr Clive Nwonka, author of the acclaimed book \u2018Black Arsenal\u2019, and chaired by former Olympian and broadcaster Jeanette Kwakye MBE, the panel featured Arsenal legend Anita Asante; LABRUM London founder Foday Dumbuya, who collaborated with Arsenal and adidas on the club\u2019s 2024\/25 Africa-inspired away kit, and Ghanaian-British afrobeats producer, DJ and musician, Juls, who composed the music for the kit\u2019s launch film.<\/p>\n

The discussion also explored how generations of Black players, supporters and creatives have helped shape Arsenal’s identity, redefining representation in English football and establishing the club as a cultural force extending into music, fashion and everyday life.<\/p>\n

To get an inside scoop on what went down, we sent Nakeira Westmaas across the capital to gather all the details about a unique occasion.<\/p>\n

Press play on the video above to find out more!<\/p>\n

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At the start of June, we hosted a very special panel evening at The Music is Black Festivaland you can now find out what went down with a special feature from UCL East. Hosted by Academic-in-Residence Dr Clive Nwonka, author of the acclaimed book \u2018Black Arsenal\u2019, and chaired by former Olympian and broadcaster Jeanette Kwakye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}