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



