ABSTRACT
This chapter explores ideas of Black spatiality in the context of Addis Ababa and Atlanta. The text expands on ideas of urban boundaries, the ghebbi, transatlantic legacies of Blackness, colonial legacies, and the concept of immeasurability. Weaving narratives from contemporary Black thinkers and intellectuals, the work aims to spatialize some of these ideas through the work developed by the author with AD—WO, as well as his own lived experience on both sides of the Atlantic and the impossibility of return. Building on the intellectual work of Black thinkers, this chapter connects these ideas to an expanding world that, not emerging but latent, is participating in articulating a pluriverse beyond the Western canon.
