Wangũi wa Kamonji ’13 Regeneration Practitioner at fromtheroots
Informed by research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan dance and movement practice; ancestral connection, processwork, and nervous system relation, Wangũi tends the organism fromtheroots, an unlearning ecoversity supporting individuals’ and communities’ transitions from coloniality to the pluriverse through transformational training, coaching and practice accompaniment. This work is motivated by the twin challenge of healing the colonial traumas of past and present, and (re)creating ways for us to live regeneratively with ourselves, Earth and ancestors again i.e., for us to decolonise and reindigenise, and responds to an ancestral invitation to rethink and reimagine everything from indigenous Afrikan ontologies.
Wangũi is a 2024 Postgrowth Institute Fellow and regional weaver in the Afrika Ecoversities network. She was part of the inaugural FRIDA Climate and Environmental Justice Fellowship researching and writing on the intersections of gender and climate justice in East Afrika, and her work is published on Open Global Rights, Decolonial Passage, Africa is a Country, Transition Network among others. She has an MSc in African Studies with Environment & BA in Environmental Studies/Urban Studies. Born and based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika you might find Wangũi reading, laughing, drinking tea or dancing (maybe all at once).