We are living in troubled times. In the opening session of Re/membering our Rooted Selves, we investigate tangled systemic crises and cracks in the systems that have become even more visible with the multiple collapses. How do we move, in spite? Aza Njeri, professor of African Literature and researcher of African and Afro-diasporic Philosophies, Cultures, Literatures and Arts, one of the teachers in this opening week, shares about the Bakongo philosophy, an African philosophy of the peoples of Congo and Angola.

Key to this philsophy is the idea that we are all 'living suns'. How do we practice this, within ourselves, in our communities, and even with the more-than-human, with the Earth? How does it give us responsibility in these troubled times, but also freedom? How can it inspire us amidst radical dehumanisation, in history and in the present? Find out more in this clip.