Our protagonist, Aminatou is 60+ years, a young woman in university, and a girl-child. The year is the future. Aminatou’s story is a love story between the phases of her life and Earth's sustainability, told through visions of water.
Realizing that the water in her family well has become contaminated, the child Aminatou flies over the earth on the tail of a crocodile, discovering how oceans and rivers connect her to people of the African Diaspora, including the Black Caribbean and the US. The crocodile, Aminatou's familiar, represents the ancestor and indigenous wisdom, and danger. She wants to scream to humanity that our survival is crucially dependent on water security. The message is urgent. Greed and overconsumption are the antagonists.
Flint knows (2014), Philly knows (2023), Brazil, Cuba and the Navajo know. Drawing on Yoruba and Black Southern traditions, magic, current events, and history, the story is, literally, a moving quest revealing Black life sustained, Black agency, and Black reciprocal love of Earth in ways we never imagined.
