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Three works moving between design theory, African futures, fiction, postcolonial survival, and the politics of memory.
Design. Education. Decolonisation. Fiction. Memory. Futures. Theory. Survival.
01
2024
Routledge
Towards New Theories, Methods, and Practices
African design is not a decorative supplement to global design history. It is a source of theory, method, pedagogy, and world-making.
02
2026
Forthcoming
Living, Breathing and Surviving the Postcolonial African Economy
A literary work about survival, shame, economy, memory, and what it means to remain human inside systems that keep asking for more.
03
2024
Palgrave Macmillan
Decolonising Minds, Education, Spaces, and Practices
African futures are not waiting rooms for imported progress. They are already being designed through memory, space, education, practice, and refusal.
Reading sequence
The books can be read separately, but together they form a longer argument about African design knowledge, postcolonial life, and the conditions needed to imagine otherwise.
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