Art & Culture

Africa is also often cited as holding around 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land, one reason the continent matters so much to future food systems. These figures do not simply represent economic progress. They represent potential. They are reminders that the continent is not waiting for others to build its future. It is already doing so.

My book sits wrapped in brown paper on my lap. Precursor. Six years of composition while dana’s mind performed its cartridge of forgetting. Now it exists bound, physical and bearing her name in the dedication. I spent the night touching the cover, feeling sick with accomplishment and loss, that particular nausea of creating something permanent while watching someone become provisional. Even before the city’s humidity thickens at the edges of the lake, the nights behind me stack themselves into brittle plates. Nights of drafting and tearing, revising, arguing with ghosts, wondering whether memory is a rope or a river. I bring all that restlessness into this homecoming. I am gut-full with joy-grief and the double-edged brightness of knowing she will finally hold what I’ve spent years breathing toward.

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, Howard Carter’s team decapitated the pharaoh, severed his limbs and dismembered his torso. Then they covered it up.

Talking to someone with cancer is an exercise in presence, honesty and restraint and not grand speeches, dramatic optimism or rushed solutions. One simply tries to show up with humanizing words, and sometimes, with none at all.

Ethiopia and Kenya may become Africa’s first countries to repay Chinese loans in Beijing’s currency. It’s the latest in a wider de-dollarization trend that is sweeping across the continent.

The Whipped P exhibit was created to educate people of all cultures and backgrounds. More importantly, it was designed to help bridge the gap between Africans and African Americans.