Kindred Creation

Praise

“The parables in Kindred Creation show us the light on the walk of life.”
—Nikki Giovanni, poet, author and seven time NAACP Image award winner

“Kindred Creation is an offering of high art, radical political philosophy, and spiritual nourishment. Read this book and prepare to be unsettled, challenged, inspired, and healed.”
—Marc Lamont Hill, author and BET News correspondent

“… a lyrical, audacious appeal to decolonize everything in order to preserve and repair our planet. A vital contribution that needs to be translated into every language.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

“A powerful testimony to the richness of African and Black knowledges. Both inspiring and poignant.”
—Anna Tubbs, author of the New York Times best seller Three Mothers

“An invitation to rip colonial borders out of our hearts and souls by the roots, and then rebuild, restore, and reimagine what lives lived together could look like…. an invitation to be made whole.”
—Patty Krawec, cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast, cofounder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation, and author of Becoming Kin

“Kindred Creation moves us in the direction toward decolonial futures in ways we didn’t know we needed.”
—Kyle T. Mays, PhD, author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

“This book is a marvel…. it just may be the spark needed to compel serious transformative action.”
—Daniel O. Sayers, author of A Desolate Place for a Defiant People

“Clear-sighted and precise, heart-centered and expansive. A balm.”
—Angela Flournoy, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Turner House

“A revival and a revelation…. Kindred Creation shows us the magic, majesty, and magnificence that is Blackness. A must-read for anyone working to create a future worthy of our children.”
—Michael Tubbs, special advisor for economic mobility to CA Governor Newsom and former mayor of Stockton

“This precious book reminds us that if we refuse to acknowledge our individual and collective responsibility in caring for the earth and all beings on it, it is at our own peril. Love is the answer to every question.”
—Ericka Huggins, author of Comrade Sister

“Kindred Creation is in the family way with languages, musings, musicalities, worldviews, ontologies, epistemologies, and axiologies of free and ancient futures.”
—Fania Davis, civil rights attorney and restorative justice practitioner

“A must-read for all schools and for parents of Black children who can use Aida’s smart, decolonized lens as a tool to reimagine/create a revolutionary new world of freedom.”
—Jessica McKay, New York Times best-selling author of Always with You, Always with Me

“Aida’s vision and voice are seminal and represent the leadership necessary to unlock the promise of the nation by unleashing the promise in us all.”
—Dr. Michael McAfee, president and CEO of PolicyLink

“The American experiment in democracy may be nearly 250 years old, but our attempt to realize a multiracial and pluralistic society of free and equal citizens has yet to be born…. Kindred Creation reminds us that we must look backward to reclaim and repair in order to chart any path forward.”
—Rob Reich, professor of political science at Stanford University