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His practice focuses on intergenerational narratives and the history of marginalized communities. <\/p>\n<p>Together, they are working with the indigenous African technology of the Lukasa memory tablets, which contain an archive of the knowledge and history of the Luba people. Inspired by this, they are developing a digital, sacred archive that preserves Black and indigenous memory spaces for future generations. <\/p>\n<p>Her project is part of the <em>Man-Machine<\/em> program of the Junge Akademie Berlin in cooperation with the E-Werk Luckenwalde and the E.ON Foundation. 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