The Women’s History Museum of Zambia is a feminist and decolonial museum initiative practicing rematriation as way of restoring, documenting, and activating women-led indigenous knowledge systems, material culture, and historical narratives in Zambia. Founded in response to the exclusion of women from dominant archival and museum canons, the museum works across research, exhibitions, digital storytelling, workshops, and public pedagogy to build more equitable and community-grounded cultural infrastructures.
Its work spans oral history, archival activation, textile and material culture research, digital interventions, and collaborative programming with artists, knowledge keepers, researchers, and institutions in Zambia and internationally. Through projects such as digital exhibitions, community learning labs, collection-based interpretation, and women-centred publishing and storytelling, the museum rethinks the archive as a living, usable resource rather than a static repository.
The museum’s broader mission is to contribute to epistemic repair by reconnecting communities to histories and knowledge systems that were disrupted through colonialism, patriarchy, and extractive museum practice. It is committed to shaping new models of museum practice from the African continent that centre memory, care, co-authorship, and public value.

KOKOBA: Meeting Our Griots is a multimodal literary platform operating at the intersection of art, research, archiving, documentation, and education. It provides access to Africa’s literary and intellectual heritage through inclusive, aesthetic, and consciousness-raising experiences in order to negotiate freedom, healing, revelation, remembrance and the reshaping of social imaginaries. KOKOBA harnesses the regenerative qualities of storytelling, books, self-study, and collective study to expand our sense of possibility in service of (inner) world-bending, (inner) world-mending, and (inner) world-making. On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, KOKOBA’s founder and steward, Keren LASME, curated La Bibliothèque des Possibles (The Library of Possibilities), a roving study space and library that reimagines the library as both altar and sanctuary: a bridge between the mundane and the sacred, offering poetic, intimate, and intuitive modes of engaging with knowledge.

Fondation H is a Malagasy contemporary art foundation. It was founded in Antananarivo in 2017 on the initiative of entrepreneur and patron Hassanein Hiridjee, who believed that art and culture have a strong social impact and enable a critical opening to the world. It has been recognized as a public utility since 2018.
Fondation H operates programs dedicated to supporting artists from Africa and its diasporas in their careers, facilitates public access to art, and actively participates in the development and structuring of the art scene in the Indian Ocean.
Fondation H, in its 2200 m² space in downtown Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, invites local or international curators to conceive exhibitions anchored in the Malagasy context. The emphasis is on local productions, through residences and creative grants.
Fondation H sets up various programs, all completely free of charge, dedicated to artists and its audiences: Prix Paritana in support of the young malagasy scene since 2017, artist residencies in Antananarivo and Paris (via its partnership with the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, where Fondation H has been renting a studio apartment, and its adjoining exhibition space since 2020), Hay creative workshops for children aged 6 to 12 since 2021, Ainga training courses for artists since 2022, and numerous cultural mediation initiatives linked to each exhibition, including Les samedis de la Fondation H, every saturday morning of the year, and two to three public programs per year.

The Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery (MSRCAS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in California dedicated to the collection, study, and presentation of materials that engage with the ongoing legacies of Atlantic slavery and antiblackness in the United States and abroad. Located in Los Angeles, MSRCAS supports theoretical research, curatorial inquiry, and public programming related to the legacies of Atlantic slavery. With a focus on both historical and contemporary materials, MSRCAS serves as a site of interdisciplinary engagement at the intersection of Black studies and Black contemporary art.

VAVY Media is a digital media platform created under the umbrella of VAVY, a cultural platform and creative studio based in Madagascar. VAVY Media is dedicated to making visible, preserving, and sharing the work, voices, and cultural knowledge of Malagasy women artists and cultural practitioners. The platform functions as an ecosystem to strengthen the recognition of women in shaping Madagascar’s cultural heritage while connecting them to regional, continental, and global audiences. As a contemporary living archive, VAVY Media experiments with and rethinks how cultural knowledge can be documented, preserved, and shared. Using storytelling and the everyday as foundations, it builds a community-centered archive that preserves Malagasy matrilineal heritage, ensures accessibility, and shapes future possibilities.

The Baldwin Institute is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing literacy, creativity, and critical thinking among young people across New York City. Inspired by the life and legacy of James Baldwin, we create educational third spaces—outside of home and school—where students are empowered to explore their curiosities, engage the arts, and access the tools they need to thrive. Through culturally grounded programming and community-centered resources, the Baldwin Institute is helping build a more just, imaginative, and Baldwin-informed future. To learn more about our work, please visit baldwininstitute.org

This March, G.A.S. is pleased to welcome U.S. based ecological researcher and farmer Monai McCullough for a six-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Working across research and ecology, her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in the decolonisation of horticulture. Through her work, she reimagines relationships to nature through education, regenerative practices, and workshops that foster deeper dialogue around environmental justice and our connection to the natural world.

Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of welcoming Okwei Odili, a Nigerian Afrobeat musician and cultural practitioner, to the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ for her residency. Based between Lagos and Salvador, her work spans moving image, sound, ecology, and ancestral knowledge systems.  Through her multidisciplinary practice, she explores how sound and storytelling can empower women, mental health and support ecological health. 

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on 2nd April 2026 for The Cyanotype Studio, a two-part event featuring a hands-on cyanotype printing workshop and an open studio led by current resident adeoluwa oluwajoba. Exploring the transfer and reproduction of images, moving between the painted object and photographic printmaking in his pratice, adeoluwa's work examines the forms and positions the human body assumes within private, intimate spaces, as well as the possibilities for influence, symbiosis, and subversion between object and form.

This March, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), announced the call for the pilot edition of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop, an initiative designed to support the professional and critical development of emerging local art writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners. This edition explores critical art writing practices while examining how writing can function as a tool for activism, encouraging readers to ask questions, challenge narratives, and engage more deeply with the social and political contexts that shape contemporary art.

Bootleg Griot is an independent public library initiative dedicated to broadening access to literature and print media. Committed to collecting, preserving, and presenting works by artists, collectives, and writers of African descent, it serves as a resource for cultural continuity and exchange.

Functioning as a living archive of ideas, Bootleg Griot recognizes cultural preservation as essential to understanding and reclaiming ethnic histories, while fostering dialogue and knowledge-sharing within the community.

The Afrosonic Innovation Lab is a team of artists, creatives, and scholars actively engaged in the making of music, sound experimentation, and musicological analysis. We actively seek and cultivate projects globally which involve research creation, performance, publication, field research, and curation. While based in Toronto, we work across a number of sites in Canada and internationally.