On Weathering, Shoring, and Relational Geology

“Poder e ambenca tradicional” is an expression originating and translated from Kisundi, and more broadly Ibinda, that gestures toward the spiritual-political grounding of traditional authority in Cabinda, where the leadership of our sobas and regedores is rooted as much in ancestral cosmology and wisdoms as in everyday governance of social life.

Christina Sharpe quoted in “On Water, Salt, Whales, and the Black Atlantics,” The Funambulist, December 14, 2021, ➝.