We grow between rocks, with our leaves, and flowers turned towards home – Prossession Pedagogies

This chapter is an ongoing reflection on the multiple modalities of repossession on land, across the transnational geographies along the Cape-Namibia route. The project draws on the half-mens (pachypodium namaquanam) imaginaries grounded in a poetics that mobilises memories of displacement, and of residing/resisting in the everyday, to re-assert an alternate socio-political, juridical and geographic staging of restorative processes.

The research, and workshop program in Cape Town in March 2024, proposes prossessions (walks, movement, collective learning), auditory recordings in sites, and readings, with artists, who work with plant and soil knowledges, heritage activists, and growers of indigenous gardens. The project traces, and assembles a relational archive of poetry, songs, incantatory and visual objects, plants, and soils.

This gathering was made possible by all the participant-facilitators Lucelle, Denisha, Melissa, blk banaana, Nozuko, Aunty Edith, and Stephané, and our larger cultural family in Cape Town. Gei-gan gans to Thania Petersen, for her presence in the making of and process of the gatherings, and for hosting our first day of an epic gathering at their family home. Thanks to Graeme Arendse, and the Chimurenga family, Ntone, Mishca, Terry, and Memory, for hosting our art-making workshop, introduction to riso-printing session, and breaking bread. Thank you to the Jackal and Sun team for organizing from Berlin.