RESEARCH
13.12 advances interdisciplinary research grounded in African Indigenous knowledge systems, generating new ways of understanding ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Intercultural Arts: Ways of Working in Practice
THE COSMOVISION:
AFRICAN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYMPOSIUM
THE COSMOVISION:
AFRICAN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYMPOSIUM
The symposium brings together scholars, artists, traditional knowledge holders, and community members to centre African Indigenous knowledge systems through traditional, practice-based epistemologies, with an emphasis on embodied and immersive ways of knowing.
RESEARCH TEAM
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Lamine Sonko
LEAD RESEARCHER
Lamine Sonko explores ancient African metaphysical and cosmological knowledge systems with a focus on embodied, practice-based epistemologies. He is an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, research candidate at Australian National University and his work has been supported by Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar. -
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Dr. Aboubakry Sow
RESEARCHER
Aboubakry Njaparta SOW holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Liège in Belgium. He is a research fellow at URICA/IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and a consultant at the Museum of Black Civilizations. His work addresses themes on multi-located terrains, linking musical heritage, geosophy, eco-musicology (nature and environment) and musical practices.
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Ibrahima Diop
RESEARCH / PROJECT ASSISTANT
Ibrahima Diop is a cultural facilitator, filmmaker, and researcher specializing in Senegalese and West African cultural practices. His work focuses on the transmission, preservation of intangible cultural heritage, with particular emphasis on traditional performing arts, oral traditions, ritual practices, and their socio-historical significance within Senegalese and West African societies. from antiquity to the present.
