In November 2025, I joined Sename Koffi Agbodjinou on a panel moderated by Pierre-Christophe Gam at the Dubai Future Forum. Our session, “The Global Mapping of Dreams,” explored how ancestral intelligence and speculative imagination converge to shape self-determined futures across Africa and its diaspora. I shared my work in Tulsa as an example of how Black imagination serves as survival technology — a practice that has allowed people to hold onto and protect futures for which they could see no immediate evidence.
I framed imagination as critical infrastructure: the prerequisite for material change. My contributions focused on how we use world-building to create tangible encounters with other futures, allowing visionary ideas to take root in the body. As Africa becomes the world’s most youthful and populous region, we reflected on imagination as a living technology for re-authoring narratives and regenerating environments — treating the collective dream as a rigorous architectural plan for self-determined futures.
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