Teachers

Interdisciplinary artist, writer, and literary curator. With a foundation in African Studies from SOAS University of London, Keren merges mythopoetic identity with the transformative power of reading. She envisions learning spaces as portals to freedom, healing, and societal reimagination, intertwining education, care politics, and African literature as praxis..

As a multi-hyphenated African scholar, priestess, and creative, Ehime Ora equips others with necessary tools to promote personal alignment and generational healing. Through African philosophy, artistic curation, and ancestral technology, she facilitates radical community joy and development.

Oluwaseun Babalola is an award-winning director, 2x Emmy-nominated producer, exhibited photographer, nonprofit founder/executive director, and a community organizer with over a decade of travel, film, event, and television expertise in 20+ countries.

Laurence Sessou is a bodywork therapist, aromatherapist and an artist muse, with roots from the Republic of Benin, and has been practising for over 14 years. She is founder of Azoouiwa, a platform that champions the work of women activists, healers and creatives

Hakima Abbas, is a lifelong liberation activist who has been at the forefront of African and global activism for over two decades. She is a co-founder of the Black Feminist Fund and former Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development and Fahamu, a Pan-African support organisation. She was also a co-editor of the "Queer African Reader" and "Pan-Africanism and Feminism" issues of Feminist Africa.

Chika Unigwe is an award-winning writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, she is the author of four novels, including On Black Sisters Street and Night Dancer. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Guernica, Aeon and many others.

Kukily is an Afro-feminist artistic collective that creates interdisciplinary works around topics such afro-descendent identity, the place of afro-descendent women in society, and the necessity to express ourselves through art

Pumla Dineo Gqola is a South African academic, writer, and gender activist, best known for her 2015 book Rape: A South African Nightmare, which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award. She is a professor of literature at Nelson Mandela University, where she holds the South African Research Chair in African Feminist Imaginations.