The editorial team of Vibrate! would like to express great appreciation to the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Centre for African Studies for their generous donation to this issue of Absinthe. We also wish to thank Kelly Askew, Stephanie Bosch Santana, and Simon Gikandi for advising us towards your networks of brilliant translators, writers, and scholars. Uhuru Phalafala, we value the time you spent conceptualizing Vibrate! in its initial phases. Your expansive and imaginative understanding of Africanity in translation was inspirational. Thank you Emily Goedde for reading our translations. And thank you to everyone who shared our spirit, and who have been supporting us generously in other, yet equally important ways.
This is for you.