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‪Radyo Tanbou, created in 1982 after the French law authorizing free radio stations was passed, is a militant media supporting the Guadeloupean independence movement and the ideological currents that constitute it. We first look at some of the most important events that have marked the life of this radio station over the last forty years. The analysis then focuses on the place taken within the radio programmes by identity-based discourses and by recurring themes of remembrance of past political struggles, of the slave period, and of Afrocentric cultural heritage. We will see that these issues, as vehicles for the political uses of origins and the relationship between independence and “racial” logics of belonging, are the subject not only of broadcasts and debates, but also of public events (ceremonies, activists’days, commemorative marches) relayed almost systematically by the radio. Drawing on surveys conducted between 2017 and 2023, the article examines how, today, Radyo Tanbou testifies its leaders’wish to set the social and memorial issues of the present in the “patriotic” and “anti-colonial” duration of their commitment.‪