A Multi-VolumeKnowledge Project

Our Digital Lives and Indigenous Pathways

This is the second volume in the multi-volume anthology, Living Sustainably Here. It traces multiple routes toward The Africa We Want – routes that are digital and embodied, contemporary and ancestral. These pathways show sustainability as something practiced and shaped by people who tell stories, teach, and cook; by people who build, publish, and make films; and by people who remember. Spanning digital platforms and ancestral practices, the essays show knowledge as something passed from one generation to the next.

A memorial tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Henry Chakava has been included in this volume. The tribute was conceived not only as a celebration of their lives, but as illumination: a reminder that knowledge pathways endure because people continue to walk them.

Africa Under Pressure: Literature, Energy, Equity, Justice and Security

This is the third volume in the multi-volume anthology, Living Sustainably Here. Storytellers, social advocates, poets, librarians, geologists and youth mentors confront the defining tensions of our time: energy and equity, conflict and conscience, freedom and responsibility. The pages open onto a brilliant landscape of imagination and industry, of policy, protest, science and education.Among these essays are those that argue that literature is not a luxury in hard times, but a tool of clarity, a tool of resistance, and renewal. None of these essays is commentary from the margins: the voices gathered here stand at the fault lines of Africa’s present, shaping the possibilities of its future.