Yaw Ofosu-Asare

Books / theory / fiction / African design futures

Books as living archives.

Three works moving between design theory, African futures, fiction, postcolonial survival, and the politics of memory.

Design. Education. Decolonisation. Fiction. Memory. Futures. Theory. Survival.

01

2024

Routledge

Decolonising Design in Africa

Towards New Theories, Methods, and Practices

Decolonising Design in Africa cover

African design is not a decorative supplement to global design history. It is a source of theory, method, pedagogy, and world-making.

African designDecolonial methodsDesign education

02

2026

Forthcoming

No One Leaves Clean

Living, Breathing and Surviving the Postcolonial African Economy

No One Leaves Clean cover

A literary work about survival, shame, economy, memory, and what it means to remain human inside systems that keep asking for more.

FictionPostcolonial lifeSurvival

03

2024

Palgrave Macmillan

African Design Futures

Decolonising Minds, Education, Spaces, and Practices

African Design Futures cover

African futures are not waiting rooms for imported progress. They are already being designed through memory, space, education, practice, and refusal.

Design futuresEducationAfrican spaces

Reading sequence

Theory, then survival, then future.

The books can be read separately, but together they form a longer argument about African design knowledge, postcolonial life, and the conditions needed to imagine otherwise.

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