Mutfak dishes out diasporic and decolonial perspectives on food, family and fictions peppered with interviews, field recordings, sound archives and poetry. Our goal is to amplify lesser-heard voices and nurture transversal affinities across Afro-Asian diasporas.

In our first episode on Oroko Radio, we trace our diasporic histories and weave transnational threads across and beyond the borders of Ethiopia, Italy, the Netherlands, China, Taiwan, Sarawak, Singapore, Turkey, the United States and Germany. Navigating topics such as peace songs in the Tigray War, the shared etymology of the Malay and Turkish word for "soap," and documentary filmmaker Can Candan's archive of minor feelings in reunified, post-Wall Berlin in Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls (2000), we delve into our oft-complex relationships with the notions of home, identity, and belonging. Traversing space-time and Ethiopian jazz, funk, disco, dream pop and Mandopop, this episode brims with futuristic and nostalgic reverberations.