Tania Safura Adam (Maputo – Mozambique, 1979) is a curator, researcher, and founder of Radio Africa, a laboratory of critical thought and a platform for the dissemination of Black arts and cultures. Based in Barcelona (Spain), her research explores Black diasporas in the Iberian Peninsula through imagery, literature, popular culture, and historiography, and she studies African societies through their popular music.
She curated Black Archives: Fragments of an Anticolonial Metropolis (Manifesta 15, 2024), A Requiem for Humanity: Dehumanisations, Power, and Black Futurisms (La Casa Encendida, 2023–2024), and Microhistories of the Diaspora: Embodied Female Experiences of Dispersion (La Virreina, 2018–2019). In 2016, she was responsible for the public programme of Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design (CCCB, ICUB).
Since 2022, she has directed the research project España Negra: Journey Towards Blackness in Space-Time (Museo Reina Sofía – Artium – CCCB – IVAM, 2023–2024 / MACBA – CCCB, 2025). She coordinated the Iberian Black Studies seminar in the Reina Sofía Museum’s Independent Study Programme (2023–2024) and is currently part of the team for MACBA’s Independent Studies Programme (PEI).
In 2024, she founded Archivos Negros, an eclectic repository of books, records, posters, newspaper articles, letters, speeches, songbooks and folk tales, drawings and caricatures, images of statues and monuments, vernacular photographs, archives, records, contracts, registries, and other sources that reaffirm the Black presence in Spain from the 15th century to the present day.
She writes for various media outlets and contributes essays and poems to different publications. She has recently published the catalogue Archivos Negros: Fragments of an Anticolonial Metropolis and the essay Black Voices: An Oral History of African Popular Music (Malpaso, 2024).
Since 2017, she has hosted the Radio Africa programme on betevé. She also hosted the TV talk show Terrícoles (2017–2019) and African Bubblegum Music on Radio Primavera Sound (2019).