A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and 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.
Structured in three parts—Remember, Refuse, and Reclaim—Kindred Creation is a philosophical guidebook and a vital invitation to power and reconnection. Davis employs parable, poetry, theory, memory, narrative, and prophecy to help readers:
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"Writer, leader, visionary, and storyteller, Aida Mariam Davis, has turned centuries of accumulated knowledge and wisdom from the victims of settler colonialism into a lyrical, audacious appeal to decolonize everything in order to preserve and repair our planet. A vital contribution that needs to be translated into every language."
— Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
The parables in Kindred Creation show us the light on the walk of life.
— Nikki Giovanni, author and seven time NAACP Image award winnerDrawing from the best parts of our traditions, Kindred Creation is an offering of high art, radical political philosophy, and spiritual nourishment. Read this book and prepare to be unsettled, challenged, inspired, and healed.
— Marc Lamont Hill, author and BET News correspondentThis book is a powerful testimony to the richness of African and Black knowledges. Both inspiring and poignant, Davis takes an incisive look at the past and invites us to reclaim our interconnectedness. A must read!
— Anna Tubbs, author of New York Times bestseller Three MothersAida Mariam Davis has turned centuries of accumulated knowledge and wisdom from the victims of settler colonialism into a lyrical, audacious appeal to decolonize everything in order to preserve and repair our planet. A vital contribution that needs to be translated into every language.
— Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom DreamsA powerful testimony to the richness of African and Black knowledges. Both inspiring and poignant.... A must-read!
— Anna Tubbs, author of the New York Times best seller Three MothersAn invitation to rip colonial borders out of our hearts and souls by the roots, and then rebuild, restore, and reimagine what lives lived together could look like.... an invitation to be made whole.
— Patty Krawec, cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast, cofounder of the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation, and author of Becoming KinKindred Creation moves us in the direction toward decolonial futures in ways we didn't know we needed...this book is a must-read!
— Kyle T. Mays, PhD, author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United StatesThis book is a marvel.... it just may be the spark needed to compel serious transformative action.
— Daniel O. Sayers, author of A Desolate Place for a Defiant People and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal SwampClear-sighted and precise, heart-centered and expansive. A balm.
— Angela Flournoy, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Turner HouseA revival and a revelation.... Kindred Creation shows us the magic, majesty, and magnificence that is Blackness. A must-read for anyone working to create a future worthy of our children.
— Michael Tubbs, special advisor for economic mobility to California Governor Gavin Newsom and former mayor of StocktonThis precious book reminds us that if we refuse to acknowledge our individual and collective responsibility in caring for the earth and all beings on it, it is at our own peril. Love is the answer to every question.
— Ericka Huggins, author of Comrade SisterKindred Creation is in the family way with languages, musings, musicalities, worldviews, ontologies, epistemologies, and axiologies of free and ancient futures.
— Fania Davis, civil rights attorney and restorative justice practitionerA must-read for all schools and for parents of Black children who can use Aida's smart, decolonized lens as a tool to reimagine/create a revolutionary new world of freedom.
— Jessica McKay, New York Times best-selling author of Always with You, Always with MeAida's vision and voice are seminal and represent the leadership necessary to unlock the promise of the nation by unleashing the promise in us all.
— Dr. Michael McAfee, president and CEO of PolicyLinkThe parables in Kindred Creation show us the light on the walk of life.
— Nikki Giovanni, poet, author and seven time NAACP Image award winnerKindred Creation is an offering of high art, radical political philosophy, and spiritual nourishment. Read this book and prepare to be unsettled, challenged, inspired, and healed.
— Marc Lamont Hill, author and BET News correspondent... a lyrical, audacious appeal to decolonize everything in order to preserve and repair our planet. A vital contribution that needs to be translated into every language.
— Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom DreamsA powerful testimony to the richness of African and Black knowledges. Both inspiring and poignant.
— Anna Tubbs, author of the New York Times best seller Three MothersKindred Creation moves us in the direction toward decolonial futures in ways we didn't know we needed.
— Kyle T. Mays, PhD, author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United StatesThis book is a marvel.... it just may be the spark needed to compel serious transformative action.
— Daniel O. Sayers, author of A Desolate Place for a Defiant PeopleA revival and a revelation.... Kindred Creation shows us the magic, majesty, and magnificence that is Blackness. A must-read for anyone working to create a future worthy of our children.
— Michael Tubbs, special advisor for economic mobility to CA Governor Newsom and former mayor of StocktonAida's vision and voice are seminal and represent the leadership necessary to unlock the promise of the nation by unleashing the promise in us all.
— Dr. Michael McAfee, president and CEO of PolicyLink"The American experiment in democracy may be nearly 250 years old, but our attempt to realize a multiracial and pluralistic society of free and equal citizens has yet to be born.... Kindred Creation reminds us that we must look backward to reclaim and repair in order to chart any path forward.
— Rob Reich, professor of political science at Stanford UniversityBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!