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Àrokò Monthly Roundtable #03
In a world of fast outputs, not everything is meant to last. This roundtable begins with a simple question: what is actually worth our time, our care, and our attention?
Aishatu Ado
Aishatu is an award-winning writer and peace technologist named among "TOP 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics," exploring liberation through literary art, design, and divestment from oppressive systems.
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Building a Home for Spoken Word: An Interview with Kym Dominique-Ferguson
In conversation with ÀROKÒ.WORLD, Kym Dominique-Ferguson reflects on identity, the roots of his work, and the responsibility he feels toward the artists who come after him.
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Conjuring Possibility Through Care: An Interview With Happie Micha Edwards
In conversation with ÀROKÒ.WORLD, Happie Micha Edwards reflects on ancestry, fear, imagination, and the radical act of nourishment.
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When a Word Becomes a Sentence: The Political Economy Of Witchcraft Accusations
Across northern Ghana, hundreds of women live in "witch camps," exiled after accusations that follow death, inheritance disputes, or success. Beneath the language of the supernatural lies a familiar political economy: the expulsion of women from land, rights, and belonging.
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Àrokò Monthly Roundtable #02
In 2026, we're watching the breaking point accelerate, a cultural rupture where authenticity confronts algorithmic perfection, and designers must decide whether to decorate capital or design for human care.
Àrokò Monthly
Comrades, dear friends, co-conspirators, As 2025 draws to a close, we find ourselves in that familiar in-between space, the festive glow of gatherings alongside the weight of everything this year has revealed. At Àrokò, we end the year energized by the prospect of continuing our work. We are grateful to
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Àrokò Monthly Roundtable #01
This roundtable discussion names a growing unease with societies that reward visibility over substance.
Darfur: A Wound Still Open
04 VERSES IN THE WAKE Darfur opens— a wound the sun keeps trying to close. A girl stands in the heat, holding her silence like a bird too frightened to lift its wings. The air breaks against the girl’s face. Someone’s scream from the night before still clings
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Ninja Turtle Dreams
Mama zipped me in a Ninja Turtle shell—Michelangelo, the laughing one, 'cause I giggled through gunfire and dreamed in technicolor even when sirens split the night like wishbones. Sweat glued the mask to my face, plastic breath, cinnamon gum, and that hum of danger, a tuning fork struck
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Messy by Design: How Eve’s Bayou Made Chaos an Art Form
Someone will ask you one day if you've seen Eve's Bayou. You need to be able to say yes.
Play Is Medicine: Designing Care Through Super Mario 64
Forget brain-training apps. In the ‘90s we already had one: Super Mario 64. Turns out Peach’s castle was a cognitive gym all along.
Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: contact@aroko.coop THEME We invite fiction and poetry that breathes new life into folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora. Send us stories that draw from folktales,