Afro-humanism, Afro-mnemonics: terms coined by Dr. Dòwòti Désir in her scholarship, speaks to two distinct but inseparable constructs that define spatiality from the perspective of the global African community. The first gives shape to memory as a manifestation of human agency. The latter, is a neuroplastic exercise of memory recall which is a path of reparations, both self-repair and collective, reparatory justice. Click to learn more.

Images on this page give historical context to the scholarship and exhibition on the markers of various scale, left in the built and natural environments of African descendants as they battled against their enslavement. Navigate to the page“Built Space” to see more photos of sites documented under the heading, “The Work”.