Bridging the gap

WE ARE BLACKNESS

Bridging the gap

We're not a t-shirt brand that talks about culture. We're a cultural transmission project that takes the form of clothing.

Sodabi: Benin's Sacred Spirit and the Memory of the Ancestors

Libation¹ is millennia old. Sodabi is barely a century old. Yet sodabi is what gets poured for the ancestors today. This is how that happened. Sodabi, stripped of the cliché... Read more...

Sankofa, a User's Guide: Three Moves to Decide With Your Past

We wear Sankofa around our necks, on t-shirts, across the backs of jackets. The bird with its head turned back has become a logo. But Sankofa is not an image.... Read more...

Can AI Replace the Fâ?

Millions of people ask an AI every day what they should do. That is exactly what the Gulf of Guinea has been asking the Fâ for centuries. Except a machine... Read more...

Why The Return Begins With Heritage

On August 15th, We Are Blackness comes back. Not with something new, with something retrieved. The return begins with Heritage, because for us a comeback has never meant starting over.... Read more...

Black history: a legacy that lives every day

Gumbo, Carolina rice, orixás: the same words and the same gestures from one continent to the next. What the African diaspora still practises every day. Read more...