Employing African epistemologies & an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness. Creating a world worthy of our children requires recalling the dignity and distinction of the African way of life. This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways- a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity-all (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire-not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community. Davis shares how the reader can birth new worlds and relationships and offers strategies for reclaiming land, language, lifestyle, and labor. The colonial violence and dispossession of African land, language, and labor is inflicted intentionally-and by design. Reclaiming African lifeways and remembering what was forcibly forgotten must be by creation, a re-membering of our interconnectedness and kinship.
