asaase yaa duru (soil). is an ongoing arts research project grounded in counter cartography, ancestral memory, and indigenous African spiritual technology. Its cosmology is shaped through autoethnographic methods informed by Nana Kumi’s matriarchal lineage. This project functions as a living archive, utilizing photography, film, installation, and performance. asaase yaa duru (soil). is an offering to Africa and her diaspora. This work is intended for healing. It stands as evidence that the Ancestors’ sacrifices were never, and will never be, in vain, and that the land contains a text that only requires our presence to re-member. This project is generously support by The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production aka Sipp Culture’s, Rural Performance Production Lab (RPPL).