Water Knows the Way: Diaspora, Return and the Sea

In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, I am in conversation with Adjoa Armah, artist, writer, and researcher, whose work moves between Ghana, Scotland, and the wider diaspora.

We speak about water, as body, boundary, and bridge, and how the sea holds memory for those of us whose histories are shaped by movement, rupture, and return. Adjoa reflects on the idea that water knows the way, and how creative practice can become a vessel for ancestral listening and repair.

Our reasoning drifts between archives and coastlines, between the collective and the intimate, asking what it means to come home when home is everywhere and nowhere at once. This episode listens to the sea as an ancestor, a teacher, and a keeper of story.

Themes: Diaspora and return • Water and memory • Ancestral knowledge • Black Atlantic geographies • Art as method

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