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Dedicated to African Knowledge, Historical Consciousness, and Renewal.
We connect scholars, students and communities through research, storytelling, dialogue and public scholarship that explores Africa through African perspectives.
Scholarship, public engagement, storytelling and dialogue — exploring Africa through African perspectives.
Africa has often been studied, represented and interpreted through external perspectives. While these perspectives form part of the historical record, they do not tell the whole story.
Power From Below exists to create spaces where African histories, philosophies, cultures, knowledge systems and lived experiences can be explored on their own terms.
We believe African knowledge is not a niche subject or regional specialization. It is an essential part of understanding humanity, history and our shared future.
Through research, storytelling, public dialogue and community engagement we cultivate historical consciousness and contribute to more inclusive conversations about Africa and its diasporas.
Four intellectual themes that structure our scholarship, dialogue and public engagement.
Research, essays, public scholarship, reading lists and academic reflections that advance African-centred knowledge production.
Colonisation, resistance, historical reconstruction, memory and archives — including our work on humans, animals, land and colonisation.
Podcasts, interviews, community stories, guest scholars and diaspora perspectives from African thinkers across the continent and beyond.
Education, decolonial practice, contemporary Africa, leadership and social transformation — fostering knowledge exchange for future conversations.
From Kenya to Finland, our knowledge network connects scholars, students and communities in interdisciplinary dialogue — fostering historical consciousness and African-centred scholarship.
Scholars and researchers contributing to African-centred scholarship and public dialogue.
Educators, practitioners and community scholars advancing historical consciousness.
An interdisciplinary knowledge network connecting scholars, students and communities.