speculations

2026 HAS ARRIVED

2026 is here—and so is Africans Abroad, Volume 2. Rooted in the principles of the African Jetset series, this body of work retrofits the future, staging images of Africans luxuriating in the wealth, health, and imaginative freedom of a continent allowed to flourish on its own terms. It gestures toward an alternate universe—one where the devastations of colonialism and extractivism have been ...

THE NETWORKED MUSEUM: LESSONS FROM FINDING NEMO

This talk was presented at CIMAM 2025 in Turin, Italy. 0. THE BIG BLUE Recently, on a transatlantic flight, I rewatched the Pixar classic, Finding Nemo. I’d never actually finished it before — the premise gave me too much anxiety: A clownfish named Marlin loses his son Nemo to a scuba diver’s net, and decides he’s going to cross the entire ocean to find him. I remember ...

A Parable (About Quantum Computing)

Classical computing is your proper British nanny: the stalwart anchor of Empire. Overseeing the regulation of the youth, precisely pruning the sensibilities of the future subjects of the Realm.

Twilight Protocols for Gehenna

Twilight Protocols reroutes empire’s recursion through ritual, refusal, and rogue updates. A field manual for mythic healing, algorithmic sabotage, and sacred asymmetry.

Bitterness: A Manifesto (excerpt)

A short speculative meditation on dark chocolate, engaging with Japanese animist traditions and philosophical ideas from thinkers like Reza Negarestani and Michel Foucault.

ONOME EKEH: ESPECULACIONES

Speculative in structure, these works alter the passing of time, re-imagining the past and projecting possible futures of African design.

THE GLITTERING FIELD

The works in the Glittering Field will be exemplified by the tech of text and textiles; rites of osmosis; rites of communion; interspecies relays; interventions of Intelligence of various modalities. The show will be embedded in a subtly dynamic sound environment: the gallery itself transformed into a 24 hour streaming radio station for the duration of Berlin Artweek. The evening programs ...

Invisible Jetset: Knower of the Birds / Mistress of Flight

The luminous movement behind the movement, invisible lines of flight made visible, culled from the archaic ethers of Isis, dim reflections of a defiant Nefertiti…

African Jetset: Mystical Dream Edition

When excavating the roots of African diasporic trauma, one happens upon a mystical seam…The African Jetset series takes a shamanic twist, this retrospection is the future.

African Jetset

The series African Jetset is a response to the violence and trauma that has marked the bulk of African migratory patterns, from slavery to economic or conflict driven displacement: “I wanted to create a corrective space, an alternate timeline where there was never any interruption: no slave-trade, no colonialization, no external war or plunder. Instead the continent developed along ...

Excerpts from ‘Hotel Legba’

Preview from the first volume of my graphic novel series “Hotel Legba” in which the Yoruba gods of the diaspora converge at the crossroads.

Future Fashion Week

I am delighted to have my speculative piece Future Fashion Week as part of the inaugural ‘Wild Papers—Unpredictable as the Future’, a new online publishing series, edited by Ingo Niermann and commissioned by the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. Wild Papers constitutes a collection of concise scenarios that affect the future of art, technology, gender, and nature. Why “wild”? The ...