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To understand Sharifa Jamila Smith is to understand three core tenets that weave through all her work:

No profile of Sharifa Jamila Smith would be complete without addressing the 2018 "Archival Dispute." A prominent European design museum accused her of plagiarizing the structural motifs of late Ghanaian architect J. M. Noryaa. Smith responded not with a legal team, but with a 90-page academic rebuttal tracing Noryaa’s influence back to the Ashanti kente weaving patterns that also appear in her own Guyanese grandmother’s textiles. sharifa jamila smith

Today, however, the monotony had broken. To understand Sharifa Jamila Smith is to understand