Conscious Conversations with Mmabatho Montse

This season weaves Africana Womanist eco-metaphysics, mythological studies, Black feminist geographies, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Futures Literacy. Each dialogue is a portal into learning as becoming—an initiation into memory, healing, and self-knowledge. We begin with Dr. Monica Mody, who reframes education as initiation, where myth, dreams, and cycles of birth–death–rebirth are sacred technologies of transformation. With Atava Garcia Swiecicki, we honour plants, ancestral medicine, and ecological consciousness as archives of repair. Malikeya Khantrece confronts law, coloniality, and historical amnesia, reimagining reparations as spiritual and ancestral reckoning. Dr. Christy Garrison-Harrison shows how ancestral work resists the violence inscribed on Black bodies. Mthuthu Ndebele brings music as ancestral offering, Chad Zibelman affirms co-learning and relational accountability, and Riel Miller closes the season with ponelopele—ethical foresight rooted in ancestral wisdom.