Undisciplined Archives: Dreaming Across Black Geographies
Issue Contents Journal Editor’s Introduction: An Antidote and A Map: Narrative Cartographies for Black Dreamers shah noor hussein, Managing Editor Guest Editor’s Introduction: We Were Dreamt: Reflections on Black Dreaming as a Liberatory Practice Naya Jones Sleeping in Kwame’s Room: Crocodile Dreams of Freedom from a Summer Return to Kumasi Anthony Kwame Harrison In this genre-defying piece—positioned somewhere between personal essay, family biography, and historical research paper—I reflect on my first time returning to my city of birth, Kumasi, Ghana (the capital of Ashanti) in summer 1995. For one magical summer, I stayed with Peggy Appiah, a dear family friend and the mother of my namesake. A series of dreams I had while in Ghana frame a wandering circuitous account of my experiences with people, animals, and place. Key themes surround: Ghanaian Independence in the context of Pan-Africanism; the meaning of dreams in the Akan/Ashanti world(view); family, home, and allegiance both within and outside of Ashanti society; and the capacity of proverbs, stories, and, above all else, dreams to animate new modes of freedom …