Kokoba

Kokoba

KOKOBA: Meeting Our Griots is a multimodal literary platform operating at the intersection of art, research, archiving, documentation, and education. It provides access to Africa’s literary and intellectual heritage through inclusive, aesthetic, and consciousness-raising experiences in order to negotiate freedom, healing, revelation, remembrance and the reshaping of social imaginaries. KOKOBA harnesses the regenerative qualities of storytelling, books, self-study, and collective study to expand our sense of possibility in service of (inner) world-bending, (inner) world-mending, and (inner) world-making. On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, KOKOBA’s founder and steward, Keren LASME, curated La Bibliothèque des Possibles (The Library of Possibilities), a roving study space and library that reimagines the library as both altar and sanctuary: a bridge between the mundane and the sacred, offering poetic, intimate, and intuitive modes of engaging with knowledge.

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