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WELCOME!

Sara Makeba Daise, MA (she/her) — as seen in Madame Noire and The Guardian — is a Black, queer, 5th-gen Gullah Geechee Writer, Public Historian, Griot, Gatekeeper & Dikenga Energy Worker from the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Sara is the author of Sankofa Shadow Work: Diaries of a Diasporic Diviner (2025), We Are Afrofutures: Ancestral Roots Work Toolkit (2024), and the widely acclaimed “Be Here Now: The South is a Portal” (2020). 

Profoundly shaped and initiated by her time as an interpreter, tour guide, and living historian of Black history on Southern plantations, her role as Cultural Worker is non-linear, land-based, and ancestrally guided. Sara archives, reveals, and ushers folks through portals to otherwise worlds. Liberated futures. Interdisciplinary, she creates medicine in multiple mediums to help folks heal into timelines where we are whole already. 

All of Sara’s offerings center and prioritize the lives, histories, safety, and liberation of Black, Africana, and Indigenous peoples. Particularly Black women, and others marginalized by gender, sexuality, disability, and class. Their insight and wellbeing are revered as the life-saving possibility models that they are. New worlds and new suns require new canons.

Thank you for being here! 

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Now, let’s go deep.🖤