Our Initiatives
Re-Member Project
Re-member (centre, celebrate and protect) Brewers of Traditional Afrikan Beer
In a country where black Afrikan women remain the most vulnerable to unemployment, we look to those who, though considered peripheral in the economy, have created self-employment as brewers of Traditional Afrikan Beer. We recognize the brutal violence waged by the colonial and apartheid governments to repress these women, while profiting from their indigenous knowledge to further fund our subjugation. Most importantly, we celebrate the resilience of brewers as custodians of this indigenous knowledge.
Through the lens of the oldest township in South Africa, Langa, and our current home, Kayamadi, this project intends to confront the erasure and marginalization of homebrewers and our collective biocultural heritage.
28 September 2024 - 31 May 2025
This project aims to shift exclusionary norms and practices which render Traditional Afrikan Beer and homebrewers invisible in our past, present, and future. We do thus by
- Fostering local partnerships through collaborative events;
- Engaging local communities though workshops and dialogues; and
- Expanding market access for homebrewers through customer discovery experiments.
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