The Ground Screams To Whisper

The Ground Screams To Whisper is an Afro-gothic multi-platform digital experience that includes a one-user VR game, mobile puzzle games, AR-enabled graphic novel, and a 6 D.O.F location-based experience to create a participatory immersive exhibition, where multiple viewers of a user’s exploration and gameplay is part of the experience. Told through a magical realism lens, this constellation of experiences weaves together history, folklore, and cultural astrologies to showcase the stories of Kikuyu female freedom fighters’ contributions to the independence struggle against British colonialism and plantation culture, and so including the often-erased voices of women who shaped today’s Kenya. The project illuminates and illustrates the different perspectives of hegemonic histories, excavating interesting storylines to explore across multiple platforms, in this way, creating more audiences for black and African storytelling.