Radical Hope

Radical Hope was a nine-week live inquiry into Pan-African histories of transformative action, inner development, and collective future-building.

At its core was a demanding question:

What has sustained African-descended peoples through paradigm-shifting events — and what does that teach us about building futures now?

Rather than rehearsing narratives of trauma or exceptionalism, this series examined Afro-diasporic history as a repository of strategic intelligence. Across movements, geographies, and disciplines, we studied how people of African descent have designed alternative systems of care, power, economy, and imagination under conditions of constraint.

The arc of the series moved through three layers:

1. Foundations:
   Re-grounding African epistemologies, Pan-African liberation movements, and global Black imagination.
2. Embodiment:
   Art, storytelling, healing justice, embodied leadership and collective care as living practices of social transformation.
3. Frontiers:
   Afroecology, regenerative economies, distributed power, stewardship and love as a technology for institutional design.

Radical Hope positioned hope not as optimism, but as a deliberate practice of agency, imagination, and collective responsibility. Mariame Kaba writes,

Hope is a discipline.

This series examined what that discipline has looked like across Pan-African histories, and what it demands of us now. At its core, it focuses on three shifts:

1. From victimhood to capacity.
2. From reaction to design.
3. From resistance to regeneration.

This programme laid the philosophical foundations of Ijeruka’s approach: integrating inner development, historical consciousness, and collective stewardship of possibility.

Now part of the Ijeruka Field Notes archive, the full recordings are exclusively available to Village members.