Sacred Roots: Unveiling the Mystical Tapestry of Ancestry explores the intersections of ancestry, spirituality, and the unseen forces that shape cultural identity across time.

Through essays, interviews, and visual narratives, this issue examines how inherited histories—both historical and spiritual—continue to inform contemporary artistic and cultural practices. Bringing together artists and writers working across African, diasporic, Indigenous, and MENA contexts, Sacred Roots engages themes of ritual, memory, and myth as living systems of knowledge. From ancestral worship and sacred iconography to dream-based practices and speculative futures, the issue traces how cultural memory is preserved, transformed, and reimagined across generations.

Featuring contributions from Delita Martin, Mayowa Nwadike, Tsoku Maela, Carla Jay Harris, Kipkemoi Henke, Nydia Blas, Helen Evans Ramarsan, and Adama Delphine Fawundu, this issue positions artistic practice as a site of both remembrance and invention—where the past is not only revisited, but actively reinterpreted.