Knowledge Infrastructure
Physical and digital libraries that preserve local stories, languages, and craft traditions for generations not yet born.
North Star
Less about achievements. More about purpose.
I want to help build knowledge infrastructure across Africa and its diaspora: libraries, archives, and cultural spaces where communities can see themselves clearly and imagine what comes next.
Documentary Storytelling
Films that treat communities as authors of their own narratives. Process visible. Voices centered. Editing invisible until it matters.
Creative Technology
Tools that lower the barrier between a community's imagination and what they can actually build: media labs, open archives, accessible production.
Cultural Preservation
Recording what is being lost before it becomes nostalgia: foodways, oral histories, neighborhood rituals, the everyday extraordinary.
Community Development
Spaces where young people learn to tell their own stories and older generations see their wisdom valued, not archived and forgotten.
Institutions I hope to build
- Community media libraries
- Traveling documentary units
- Youth storytelling fellowships
- Cross-continental archive partnerships