THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS—COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE

THE NIGHT THAT DREAMS—COSMOLOGIES OF SCALE marks a new iteration of Miriam Hillawi Abraham’s longstanding research on pre-colonial African cosmologies. This body of work studies and draws constellations between African cosmologies and spatial orders as multi-scalar repositories of lived knowledges and world-building traditions. Working intersectionally, she seeks to uphold the rich tapestry of African cosmologies whilst complicating Western colonial legacies, which have long dictated their (mis)understanding. Against a backdrop of Western canonical bias, standardisation and homogeneity, Abraham’s work is an expansive offering to know, practice, and imagine otherwise in reclaimed agency over ancestral traditions.