Removing the borders between Global Africans, Unlock The Door aims to elevate visionaries, creative pursuits and the art of bringing sounds together ~ highlighting progression, potential and peaceful acts.

Akanele Kalu is a writer, poet and creative producer whose work is focused on imagination and the quest for African definitions. Rooted in her community she’s the co-founder of One Room, a team engaged in recreating societal models through friendship, vulnerability, music and the practice of gathering. Akanele describes herself as “An Igbo woman living between London and Nigeria”, constantly creating options to the question “Where are you from?” Instead of checking boxes. She is currently relaunching Red Soil, a growing platform for connection between the Motherland and her Diaspora. Craig is the co-founder and Operations Director of the Black and African Solidarity Show (B.A.S.S.) and a doctoral student at Northwestern University. His work seeks to express anthropological and historical data through artistic forms and creative processes. His archaeological research investigates the placemaking processes of nineteenth-century Black American and Caribbean settlers in West Africa.