Aida Mariam Davis

Author, founder, and organizer Aida Mariam Davis is relentlessly committed to the dignity and distinction of the African and Black way of life. She is part of a long tradition of poets, philosophers, and prophets who participate in liberation movements in the US and abroad. She is a descendant of anticolonial fighters who kept Ethiopia free from colonialism when virtually all of Africa was colonized. Her life’s work has been to excavate the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways in which extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community. Mariam Davis is the founder of Decolonize Design and Kindred Creation is her first book.