Rhythm of Reconnection
Meet Mashudu, who is reconnecting knowledgeable elders with young people to animate their ancestral wisdom, culture and confidence. A new story of decolonisation from the African Earth Jurisprudence...
View ArticleCelebrating community life through seed
Gaia’s Sara Davies brings us along on her recent trip to Bikita’s Seed Fair in Zimbabwe… The minibus eases its way carefully across the rocks and onto the uneven ground of Memory Mateveke’s homestead,...
View ArticleBBC Documentary: A Man Without Bees
A new documentary, from BBC World Service, follows Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Simon Mitambo in his efforts to restore bees to Kenya....
View ArticleCompleting an Earth Jurisprudence Training Cycle
We sit on a rising bank, just beyond reeds that hang with weaver bird nests. In front of us, a pond where dragonflies nip and swallows dip, lily pads brim and people swim. Drinking hole for the baboons...
View ArticlePath of the Elephants
Meet Sam, the Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner who is working with Baka Forest Peoples to breathe new life into ‘the lungs of Africa’. Watch the film: Read Sam’s story: Indigenous communities, like...
View ArticleTracking our Way Home
This story, written by Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Samuel Nnah Ndobe, was first published in the spring 2024 issue of Dark Mountain I remember, vividly, the moment I found my place in the world....
View ArticleNew Members of the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective Graduate in Benin
A Story from African Earth Jurisprudence Collective The moon was new that night. Slim as she was, the lack of light pollution in the jungle allowed her to illuminate our welcoming ceremony, for the...
View ArticleRemembering Who We Are: Reflections on Agroecology and Earth Jurisprudence
This interview with Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Gertrude Pswarayi-Jabson was originally published by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa. Their ‘Voices of AFSA’ series celebrates those...
View ArticleAncestral wisdom, inter-being, biocentric visions: an Earth Jurisprudence update
Every other month we collate Earth-centred inspiration from around the world; if you would like to receive updates like the below straight to your inbox, sign up here. Greetings Friends,...
View ArticleStephan Harding: a Life-affirming Legacy
This September New Moon, when the stars were at their most luminous, our beloved elder, friend and teacher – Stephan Harding – passed into the ancestral realm. A soulful scientist with a poetic...
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