This chapter examines collective healing among Afro-Surinamese and Ghanaian communities in the Netherlands as a decolonial, relational, and embodied practice. Moving beyond individual narratives, it examines how intergroup relationships, shaped by shared histories of slavery, migration, and racialisation, become sites of healing and worldmaking. Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, the chapter argues that collective healing is facilitated through everyday practices of kinship, ritual, and cultural production, reconfiguring notions of belonging and reimagining diasporic relations and futures. By engaging with decolonial theory, the chapter conceptualises healing not as closure but as an ongoing relation, a process through which marginalised communities transform inherited wounds into shared agency and collective care.

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Toward Collective Healing: Afro-Surinamese and Ghanaian Futures in the Netherlands

  • Amisah Bakuri

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This chapter examines collective healing among Afro-Surinamese and Ghanaian communities in the Netherlands as a decolonial, relational, and embodied practice. Moving beyond individual narratives, it examines how intergroup relationships, shaped by shared histories of slavery, migration, and racialisation, become sites of healing and worldmaking. Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, the chapter argues that collective healing is facilitated through everyday practices of kinship, ritual, and cultural production, reconfiguring notions of belonging and reimagining diasporic relations and futures. By engaging with decolonial theory, the chapter conceptualises healing not as closure but as an ongoing relation, a process through which marginalised communities transform inherited wounds into shared agency and collective care.