Leadership Legacy

1Momentary Guardian

To My Current and Future Ancestors

What type of ancestor do I want to be?

This question impacts every decision I make, every framework I establish, and every complex emotion I explore. It's not merely philosophical, it's about choosing a way of being and becoming. In our changing world, this question makes us pause. It pushes us towards the edges and simultaneously into uncomfortable liminal spaces. Liminality, from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold, describes those in-between spaces where boundaries blur and transformation becomes possible. For me, it starts and ends with the legacies we leave behind, whether intentionally or not.

My body carries an ancient map coded in DNA. L3b1a, my maternal haplogroup, tells a story. It shows a journey from Egypt to Nigeria (paternal), Guyana (maternal), and England (the land of my birth), crossing oceans and centuries. This path includes freedom, enslavement, resilience, intergenerational knowledge and wisdom, joy, and suffering. This living map connects me to countless relatives whose existence makes mine possible. As I trace these genetic contours, I recognise I am not merely descended from ancestors, I am one and simultaneously becoming one. I exist between past and future generations. I am a momentary guardian of this code, this map, this story. It flows through me, but it doesn't belong to me alone.

My work lives in the thresholds, those fertile spaces between disciplines where transformation becomes possible. ...