In May 2026 I curated the physical exhibition for Rooted Identities: Reimagining Belonging in a Digital World in collaboration with AL for the Arts and Google Arts and Culture. Hosted at Google's new AI Community Centre in Accra, the exhibition brought together the works of six digital artists questioning what it means to be young and African in a world increasingly being shaped by AI and global tech trends. Here is an excerpt from my curatorial note:

Young Africans are digitally native, attuned to global trends fed to us through social feeds, whilst at the same time, we know we are from lineages that far outlive the algorithmic buzz of the now.

It is in this tension that Rooted Identities: Reimagining Belonging in a Digital World was born. We are asking: how are young African artists using creativity to bridge local identities with global digital culture?

The six artists in this exhibition have sat with these questions and produced works from their unique lived realities and artistic mediums. The result is a diverse body of work that invites us to not only think critically about Africa's place in an emerging technological landscape, but also to dream the kind of futures we want to see for our continent.

Rooted Identities: Reimagining Africa through the Digital (ALA x Google Arts and Culture)

With Lebone Magagane, exhibiting artist from South Africa