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The Final Whistle: Art and the Beautiful Game Enters Its Last Days

This summer the world came to Miami for the game, and AfriKin met it with a constellation of twenty-two nations. Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage closes Friday, October 2. This is the story of what that room carried, and your invitation to stand inside it before the final whistle.

From the Founder • September 23, 2026 • Alfonso D. Brooks

Football has always been a language our people speak without translation. This summer the whole world came to Miami to speak it, and on June 1 we opened the doors of Maison AfriKin to meet them. Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage has held that room ever since, through the songs, the flags, the heartbreak, and the joy. On Friday, October 2, the final whistle blows.

Before it does, I want to walk you back through what this exhibition carried, what it meant to the people who stood in front of it, and why I am asking you to make your way to Downtown North Miami in these final days and see it with your own eyes.

AfriKin is the Miami institution that paid African and diaspora artists $97,800 directly last year and moved 8,955 people through its doors, not another Art Week booth.

When the World Came to Miami

The FIFA World Cup 2026 turned this city into a crossroads. Supporters arrived from every corner of the earth wearing their colors, singing their anthems, and looking for somewhere that felt like home. AfriKin stood as the signature African diaspora cultural institution on the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau's official FIFA World Cup 2026 tourism platform, and we carried that responsibility with care. When visitors went searching for Africa in Miami, we wanted them to find it on our walls.

The game has always carried the weight of whole nations. Across the continent, a ball stitched together from rags and string has started careers that ended in the largest stadiums on earth. Across the diaspora, a national team has carried the pride of people scattered by history who found each other again for ninety minutes at a time. Art and the Beautiful Game was built to honor both of those stories in one room.

Twenty-Two Nations, One Sky

At the center of the exhibition hangs a constellation. Twenty-two nations, each one a star, arranged through the Yoruba framework of the Ibeji, the sacred twins. In Yoruba tradition, twins are received as a blessing, two souls sharing one arrival, honored in carvings that families keep and care for across generations. We carried that wisdom into the story of the continent and its diaspora on the world stage. Two halves of one family. One beginning. One sky.

Around that constellation we built the 100 Greatest Black Footballers project, a record of the players whose feet carried our names into history. Every label on those walls was written to do what the griot has always done. Hold the names. Keep the names. Make sure the names are never lost.

What the Game Carries

Every nation that walks onto the pitch carries its ancestors with it. Every star in that constellation is a family still finding its way home.

Bamazi Talle and the Flying Calabash

Bamazi Talle has walked beside AfriKin for many years, and for this exhibition he brought us the Football Dwells collection, on view at Maison AfriKin through October 2. Across its canvases he painted all 48 nations that took the field at the FIFA World Cup 2026. Every flag, every people, every hope that traveled to North America this summer, gathered into one body of work.

At the heart of the collection flies the calabash. Across Africa, the calabash has held the water, the grain, the palm wine, and the offerings of daily life for generations. It sits at the center of the home and at the center of the ceremony. Bamazi lifts it into flight and sets it in conversation with football, revealing how deeply the two correlate. The flying calabash carries the spirit of a people the way the ball carries the hopes of a nation, passed from hand to hand, from foot to foot, from one generation to the next.

Stand in front of Football Dwells and you will see the whole tournament at once, forty-eight nations held in one room, with Africa's oldest vessel flying above them all.

Artist Bamazi Talle with two works from the Football Dwells collection, each showing the flying calabash beside a national flag, set before a golden globe and the World Cup trophy

Bamazi Talle • Football Dwells. Football Dwells by Bamazi Talle, featured in Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage. On view at Maison AfriKin through October 2, 2026.

Featured Artist • Football Dwells

Bamazi Talle
Football Dwells paints all 48 nations of the FIFA World Cup 2026 alongside the flying calabash, tracing its role in football culture and in African life.

The Summer the World Paid Attention

On June 19, Juneteenth, the Associated Press carried the story of Art and the Beautiful Game to readers across the country and around the world. A day later, on June 20, Maison AfriKin opened its doors for the Cabo Verde International Football Welcome Reception, an evening in Portuguese and English, full of music and pride, for a nation standing on the World Cup stage for the first time in its history. On July 3, Al Jazeera English followed with The Cape Verde Effect, and the room we built in Downtown North Miami was being seen far beyond this city.

None of that happened alone. PUMA stood with us as a partner this summer, and I carry real gratitude for that partnership and for every hand that helped build this exhibition, from the artists whose work filled the walls to the volunteers who greeted every visitor at the door.

See It Before the Final Whistle

Exhibitions end. That is part of what makes them precious. The room you stand in this week will never be arranged exactly this way again. The constellation will come down. The labels will be archived. The walls will turn toward the next story, because on November 29, AfriKin Art Fair 2026, GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times, curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood, opens for its twelfth consecutive year during Miami Art Week.

So come. Bring your children and show them the constellation. Bring the friend who still talks about the match you watched together this summer. Bring the elder who remembers when Africa had to fight for a single place at the World Cup. Stand in front of those stars and find your own.

Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage
Open now through Friday, October 2, 2026
Maison AfriKin, 1600 NE 126th Street, Downtown North Miami, Florida

Plan Your Visit • Learn About AfriKin Art Fair

GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times, AfriKin Art Fair 2026, curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood

AfriKin Art Fair 2026. GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times. Curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood. November 29 to December 6, Miami Art Week.

Why This Work Needs You

Every exhibition we open is funded before the doors ever swing wide. Last year alone, AfriKin paid African and diaspora artists $97,800 directly and moved 8,955 people through Maison AfriKin's doors. Those numbers are real, and they are what one funded season already did. The season ahead, from GRIOT in November to Art, Jazz & Champagne in March, asks even more of us, and I will always be honest with you about what it takes.

The artists we pay and the community we move depend directly on a circle of partners who stand with us early. Your gift and your sponsorship are the foundation this work is built on, and the artists counting on payment this December are counting on that support landing before Art Week begins.

Give From the Heart

AfriKin is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that depends on your contributions to help us grow. May you find it in your heart to contribute and support our community that we may continue the work for you to enjoy.

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Upcoming AfriKin Events
Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage • Final Days - Through Friday, October 2, 2026 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
Plan Your Visit

AfriKin Art Fair 2026 • GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times
November 29 – December 6, 2026 • Miami Art Week
Learn More

AfriKin Vernissage • All White VIP Opening
November 29, 2026 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
Reserve VIP Access

Rhythm and Soul • Mosaic Workshop with JoKeeta
December 1, 2026 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
RSVP Now

CHANGÁ: Griot Moves • Documentary Screening & Keynote
December 3, 2026 • Miami Art Week • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
Reserve Your Seat

African Fashion Week Miami • REGENESIS
December 5 – 6, 2026 • Pop-Up December 5 • Runway December 6 • Miami Art Week
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Art, Jazz & Champagne • Women's History Month
Sunday, March 14, 2027 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
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We Are a 501(c)(3), and Every Gift Builds the Permanent Home
AfriKin Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 85-2592611, and every sponsorship and every gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. AfriKin's capital campaign funds the institution that makes every evening possible, a permanent home where this knowledge never has to depend on one more folding table again. We are raising $300,000 to convert a decade of proven cultural relevance, exhibitions, press, and civic recognition into secured infrastructure, a funded season, and the staffing to operate as a lasting institution for generations to come. $97,800 to artists and 8,955 admissions last year alone are the proof of what your support already builds. Fund the next season and watch those numbers grow.

Sponsorship tiers for AfriKin Art Fair 2026 are moving now. Secure your placement before November 29. Reserve Your Tier

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Partner With Us: Sponsor AfriKin Art Fair 2026
Title, Presenting, and Community sponsorship tiers are open now, with artist payments and fair production depending on this funding closing before November 29. Place your brand inside twelve years of Miami Art Week history and a community that already shows up 8,955 strong.

Become a Sponsor →

The AfriKin Ecosystem
AfriKin lives across five properties, each one carrying a different part of the same mandate and each one built from the start to point back toward the others.

The Institution: afrikin.org
Programs, exhibitions, press, and the record of everything we build.

The Commerce: afrikin.store
Apparel, coffee, and design that fund the mission and carry it into daily life.

The Founder: alfonsobrooks.com
Sixty countries of institutional research, framed as one person's ongoing case for what culture can build.

The Beginning: rockersmovement.com
Where it started in 1998, building music and art festivals across the world to celebrate Global African culture.

The Broadcast: rockersmovementradio.com
Carrying that same culture forward on air, every day.

When the final whistle blows on October 2, the next room opens in November. Until then, tune in to Rockers Movement Radio and carry the same spirit through your speakers: Roots, Rock, Reggae, and everything between, pulled from the Continent to the Caribbean and back again. It is the sound everything we build is rooted in, playing around the clock.

Before I Close

To every visitor who stood beneath that constellation this summer, to every nation that found its star on our wall, and to everyone who will walk through our doors before October 2, thank you. You gave Maison AfriKin a summer it will carry for a long time. I will see you under those stars, and I will see you again in November.

In diplomacy and sovereignty of culture,

Alfonso D. Brooks
Founder & Chairman, AfriKin Foundation, Inc.
afrikin.org • alfonsobrooks.com • afrikin.store • rockersmovement.com • rockersmovementradio.com
305-760-5515

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We are AfriKin

AfriKin Foundation, Inc. • Maison AfriKin, 1600 NE 126th Street, Downtown North Miami, Florida • EIN: 85-2592611 • 305-760-5515 • afrikin.org

REGENESIS: The African Winter

After resistance comes regeneration. AfriKin presents African Fashion Week Miami 2026, a radical fashion fantasy where Africa does not respond to the world, it redesigns it.

REGENESIS imagines an African winter in the heart of tropical Miami: glacial palettes, sculptural coats, and Afrofuturist tailoring for a season that doesn’t exist, yet. Featuring designers from continental Africa and its diaspora, this is craftsmanship as innovation and ancestry as technology, elevated to global luxury.

Africa is not on the runway. Africa is the runway.

📍 Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami

🗓️ December 6

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Sit Closer to the Fire: The Griot, the Healing, and the Biggest Stage Miami Art Week Has Seen

Long before there were museums built to hold it, there was a person whose whole life's work was to remember. Miami Art Week returns this November, and AfriKin returns with it, twelve years in, carrying that same oldest tradition into a new room. This is the story of the Griot, what art gives back to a hurting community, and why AfriKin Art Fair is the room this city cannot afford to walk past this season.

Sunday's room is still warm. Fifteen countries sat at one table for Taste of AfriKin, a jollof crown changed hands, and for one afternoon Maison AfriKin held more languages and more love than most rooms hold in a year. I carry deep gratitude for every hand that built it and every person who walked through those doors. Now the season turns. Miami Art Week arrives this November, our twelfth consecutive year producing inside it, and it is time to tell you exactly where we are taking this.

This year's theme is GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times. I want to take you into what that word means, why it sits at the center of everything we build at AfriKin, and why I believe this fair is the most important room Miami Art Week will hold this season.

AfriKin is the Miami institution that paid African and diaspora artists $97,800 directly last year and moved 8,955 people through its doors, not another Art Week booth.

Long Before the Gallery, There Was the Griot

In West Africa, long before institutions existed to preserve memory, there was a person whose entire life's work was memory itself. The griot held the names, the wars, the births, the songs, the treaties, and the grief of an entire people, and carried all of it forward on voice and instrument. No archive. No server. No vault. A human being, trained from childhood, entrusted with the responsibility of making sure nothing that mattered was ever lost.

The griot did more than entertain a room. The griot governed memory. Kings sat with a griot before they sat with a general, because a king who lost the story of his people had already lost his kingdom. Griots settled disputes, blessed marriages, and named children. They were praise singers and truth tellers carried inside the same craft, and the truth telling came with real risk. A griot who flattered power dishonored the tradition. A griot who spoke plainly to power sometimes paid a price for it.

That tradition crossed an ocean with us. It survived the hold of a ship. It survived plantations that outlawed the drum. It survived a deliberate effort to erase the languages that carried it, and it found new instruments and new rooms to live in. It lives now in the elder who tells you exactly where the family came from, in the aunt who holds every recipe by heart and refuses to write a single one down, in the artist who paints a history no textbook ever assigned you. The Griot never disappeared. The Griot changed form and kept working.

What the Griot Protects

A people who lose their storytellers lose the thread that holds them together. Every generation needs someone willing to remember on purpose.

Twelve Years, One Theme: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times
AfriKin Art Fair returns for its twelfth consecutive year during Miami Art Week, November 29 through December 6, and this year we are naming the work plainly. GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times is curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood, and it asks a direct question of every artist, collector, and visitor who walks through the door: what story are you responsible for telling, and what is lost if you do not tell it.

Twelve years ago this fair began as a single room and a stubborn belief that African and diaspora art deserved a stage built for it, not borrowed from someone else's calendar. Twelve years later, that stubbornness has grown into an institution carrying civic proclamations, national press, and a community that returns every season and brings others with them. The Griot theme is the clearest statement yet of what this work has always been about.

The season opens with the AfriKin Vernissage, our All White VIP opening, on November 29 at Maison AfriKin. From there, the fair carries through December 6, alongside programming built specifically around the theme, including CHANGÁ: Griot Moves, a documentary screening and keynote honoring the storytellers who came before us.

GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times, AfriKin Art Fair 2026, curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood

AfriKin Art Fair 2026 • GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times. Curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood. November 29 to December 6, Miami Art Week.

What Art Heals

I have watched a painting stop a grown man in the middle of a crowded room and hold him there in silence. I have watched a grandmother cry in front of a photograph because it looked like a street she had not seen in forty years. Art reaches places conversation cannot always reach. It gives grief somewhere to go, and it gives joy a shape you can stand in front of and point to and say, yes, that is exactly what it felt like.

Families carry stories they have never said out loud. Communities carry histories that were never written into the official record. Art becomes the translator for all of it. A canvas can hold what a family reunion cannot say directly. A sculpture can say what three generations quietly agreed to leave unspoken. This is why the work of a fair like ours is never simply commercial. Every piece on that wall is doing labor most visitors never see, and some of that labor is healing.

I have said before that we do everything here for love. That includes the healing. It has to.

The Room We Build for the Continent and Its Diaspora
An emerging artist working out of Lagos, Dakar, or Kingston rarely gets handed a stage the size of Miami Art Week. An emerging artist working three miles from Maison AfriKin who has never had a gallery return an email rarely gets one either. AfriKin Art Fair exists to close that distance. We build a room where an artist from the continent stands beside an artist from the diaspora, where a name the international market already knows shares a wall with a name the market has not discovered yet, and where both are treated with the same seriousness and the same care.

This is the value AfriKin brings to Miami Art Week that few others are positioned to bring. Basel and its satellite fairs draw the eyes of the entire art world to this city for one week a year. AfriKin makes sure that when those eyes turn toward Global African art, they land somewhere built by us, curated with our intention, and rooted in a community that stays here the other fifty one weeks of the year. This is the destination for it, the room designed to hold this work long after the tents come down.

Learn About AfriKin Art Fair → Become a Sponsor →

Why This Work Needs You

None of this exists without support, and the number that matters most is already proven. Last year alone, AfriKin paid African and diaspora artists $97,800 directly and moved 8,955 people through Maison AfriKin's doors. That is not a projection. That is what one funded season already did. A fair of this scale, a curator of Dr. Underwood's caliber, and a season of programming built to honor a theme as significant as the Griot all take real resources, and I do not pretend otherwise.

AfriKin Foundation is a nonprofit institution, and the artists we pay and the community we move depend directly on a circle of partners who fund this before the doors ever open. Your gift and your sponsorship are not gestures on the side of this work. They are the work, and the artists counting on payment this December are counting on it landing before Art Week begins.

Upcoming AfriKin Events

Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage • Exhibition Open Now
Through October 2, 2026 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami Plan Your Visit →

AfriKin Art Fair 2026 • GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times
November 29 – December 6, 2026 • Miami Art Week
Learn More →

AfriKin Vernissage • All White VIP Opening
November 29, 2026 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
Reserve VIP Access →

Rhythm and Soul • Mosaic Workshop with JoKeeta
December 1, 2026 • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
RSVP Now →

CHANGÁ: Griot Moves • Documentary Screening & Keynote
December 3, 2026 • Miami Art Week • Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami
Reserve Your Seat →

African Fashion Week Miami • REGENESIS
December 5 – 6, 2026 • Miami Art Week
Get Tickets →

AfriKin Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 85-2592611, and every sponsorship and every gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. AfriKin's capital campaign funds the institution that makes every evening possible, a permanent home where this knowledge never has to depend on one more folding table again. We are raising $300,000 to convert a decade of proven cultural relevance, exhibitions, press, and civic recognition into secured infrastructure, a funded season, and the staffing to operate as a lasting institution rather than a reconstituted event series each year. $97,800 to artists and 8,955 admissions last year alone are the proof of what your support already builds. Fund the next season and watch those numbers grow.

Become a Sponsor → : Title, Presenting, and Community sponsorship tiers are open now, with artist payments and fair production depending on this funding closing before November 29. Place your brand inside twelve years of Miami Art Week history and a community that already shows up 8,955 strong.

The AfriKin Ecosystem
AfriKin does not live on one website, and it was never meant to. Five properties carry different parts of the same mandate, each one built from the start to point back toward the others.

afrikin.org : The Institution. Programs, exhibitions, press, and the record of everything we build.

afrikin.store : The Commerce. Apparel, coffee, and design that fund the mission and carry it into daily life.

alfonsobrooks.com : The Founder. Sixty countries of institutional research, framed as one person's ongoing case for what culture can build.

rockersmovement.com : The Beginning. Where it started in 1998, building music and art festivals across the world to celebrate Global African culture.

rockersmovementradio.com : The Broadcast. Carrying that same culture forward on air, every day.

Can't wait until November for the next room? Tune in to Rockers Movement Radio and get the same spirit through your speakers: Roots, Rock, Reggae, and everything between, pulled from the Continent to the Caribbean and back again. It is the sound everything we build is rooted in, playing around the clock.

Before I Close

To everyone who filled that room on Sunday, and to everyone who will fill the next one this November, thank you. This season is being built for you and because of you. I do not take a single one of you for granted, and I promise the work ahead will be worth carrying.

In diplomacy and sovereignty of culture,

Alfonso D. Brooks
Founder & Chairman,
AfriKin Foundation, Inc.

afrikin.org • alfonsobrooks.com • afrikin.store • rockersmovement.com • rockersmovementradio.com
305-760-5515

Asé

We are AfriKin

AfriKin Foundation, Inc. • Maison AfriKin, 1600 NE 126th Street, Downtown North Miami, Florida • EIN: 85-2592611

GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times.

This Miami Art Week, AfriKin Art Fair returns for its 12th year, bringing together voices, visions, and histories that demand to be heard now. Curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood, GRIOT honors the storyteller’s role: past, present, future, speak.

Expect powerful new works from a curated roster of artists, live programming, and moments made for Miami’s creative community to gather, connect, and be moved. This is one you won’t want to miss during Miami Art Week/Art Basel Miami Beach.

📍 Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami

🗓️ November 29 – December 6

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Heavy Is the Head: A Eulogy, A Sold Out Room, and What Comes Next

There is a person behind every room I have ever filled. Last week I said goodbye to mine, and days later stood in a sold out Maison AfriKin and felt her in every smile. This is the story of who she was, a debt of gratitude to everyone who filled that room with us, and what comes next as we turn toward AfriKin Art Fair.

Last week at this time I was standing in a church, giving the eulogy for my biggest fan. The person who believed in me from day one. She moved hell and high water to help me get to where I am today, and the level of gratitude I carry I know I will spend the rest of my life trying to grow into. The very fabric of my being exists because of what she gave me, and she kept giving it until her last breath.

On Sunday we hosted a sold out Taste of AfriKin, and I could see her in the smiles. I could feel her in the joy of the guests who filled that room. Since June I had been quietly going back and forth, carrying this alone, and last Tuesday I laid her to rest. No grand announcements. Those who knew her knew how much she loved music and the arts. She lived for it.

Who She Was
That woman was my mother. Everything I have become, and everything I share with you here, is a reflection of what she instilled in me.

She taught me the simple rules of the cost of success. Price versus value. Doing what you have to do to get where you need to be. Going through it quietly, never needing the attention, just here to get it done. Understanding the cost and the task in front of you. Some of us are here for the credit, and some of us are here for creating. Know your lane, and stay humble enough to grow into it. There are teachers all around us, and we must place our trust in them. I have so much left to learn, and so much I am grateful for.

We must know that as each day unfolds, we hold the power to create stories yet untold. We carry each other into the future. May we write something we can be proud of.

Heavy Is the Head
Laying your mother to rest is not an easy task. Getting on a flight days later to produce an event at the capacity expected of us has no words attached to it, only gratitude for the patience, love, and understanding shown to me through it. Without the resources to accomplish everything we desire, we do our best to quietly put out each fire as it comes. Understaffed and overworked. Some might call it overwhelmed. We choose not to, because the vision we were given, it would be ungrateful to call it that. It is said you will not be given more than you can bear, and we trust that the grace of this work reaches the hearts and minds of those who find fault in where we are, until we get to where they need us to be.

Life is a journey, a joyride of ups and downs, and the equanimity we hold for both is what will define our character.

A Sold Out Room, and a Debt of Gratitude
I hold so much love and appreciation for our community and the way they show up and support what we do with AfriKin. It is a testament to the love of culture and community. It is the love of knowing you have a safe space to come to, to be with your kin and celebrate each other. A place like no other. It is the individual energy of each living soul who enters Maison AfriKin that gives it life. We are only the builders of the house. You are the infrastructure, the furnishings, and the occupants that make it a home.

Before I turn the page, I want to say this plainly, and by name. To the City of North Miami, and to the Office of Mayor Alix Desulme and Councilman Kevin Burns, thank you for standing with us and for believing that a room in North Miami could hold this much culture. To the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, thank you for placing us on a stage large enough to carry this work into the world. To every chef who traveled here carrying a country on a plate, to every performer who gave us rhythm we could feel in our chest, and to every single person who walked through the doors of Maison AfriKin that Sunday: thank you. You filled that room, and in filling it, you carried her with me.

Senegal took the jollof rice crown this year. Chef Ari Diop carried the title with her Braised Oxtail Jollof, with Ghana finishing second. Fifteen nations came to that table, and it was Senegal's hands that walked away with it.

2026 Jollof Rice Champion
Chef Ari Diop, Senegal, Braised Oxtail Jollof. Ghana finished second. September 6, Maison AfriKin.

May Love Be the How, What, Why, When, and Where
May our love for life and for one another always supersede any other thought or emotion that seeks to enter. What we have in common is far greater than what separates us. The key ingredient has always been, and will always be, our love for humanity across ethnic and gender lines, across every disparity that will try to say otherwise. May we always know that love is the how, the what, the why, the when, and the where. Any other question you might have, the answer lies within there. So if you ever ask me about my team, remember this. We do it all for love.

What Comes Next: AfriKin Art Fair 2026
With Taste of AfriKin behind us, our full focus turns to Miami Art Week and AfriKin Art Fair 2026, themed GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times, running November 29 through December 6. This will be our twelfth consecutive year producing during Miami Art Week, and the fair is curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood. The AfriKin Vernissage, our All White VIP opening, takes place November 29 at Maison AfriKin.

Sponsorship opportunities for AfriKin Art Fair 2026 are open now, placing your brand inside a season built on twelve years of proven cultural relevance, civic recognition, and an audience that returns and brings others with them. If your brand wants to stand inside this work, we would like to talk with you.

Learn About AfriKin Art Fair | Become a Sponsor

Upcoming AfriKin Events
Art and the Beautiful Game: Africa on the World Stage (Exhibition Open Now) — Through October 2, 2026, Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami. Plan Your Visit

AfriKin Vernissage — All White VIP Opening — November 29, 2026, Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami. Reserve VIP Access

Rhythm and Soul — Mosaic Workshop with JoKeeta — December 1, 2026, Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami. RSVP Now

AfriKin Art Fair 2026 — GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times — November 29 – December 6, 2026, Miami Art Week. Learn More

CHANGÁ: Griot Moves — Documentary Screening & Keynote — December 3, 2026, Miami Art Week, Maison AfriKin, Downtown North Miami. Reserve Your Seat

African Fashion Week Miami — REGENESIS — December 5–6, 2026, Miami Art Week. Get Tickets

We Are a 501(c)(3), and Every Gift Builds the Permanent Home
AfriKin Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 85-2592611, and every sponsorship and every gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. AfriKin's capital campaign funds the institution that makes every evening possible, a permanent home where this knowledge never has to depend on one more folding table again. We are raising $300,000 to convert a decade of proven cultural relevance, exhibitions, press, and civic recognition into secured infrastructure, a funded season, and the staffing to operate as a lasting institution rather than a reconstituted event series each year.

Donate Now — From Relevance to Permanence: a one-time or monthly gift toward the $300,000 campaign funding Maison AfriKin's transition to a permanent institution.

Become a Sponsor — Sponsor AfriKin Art Fair 2026: Title, Presenting, and Community sponsorship tiers are open, placing your brand inside twelve years of Miami Art Week history.

Can't wait until November for the next room? Tune in to Rockers Movement Radio and get the same spirit through your speakers: Roots, Rock, Reggae, and everything between, pulled from the Continent to the Caribbean and back again. It is the sound everything we build is rooted in, playing around the clock.

A Word of Gratitude
Before I close, I want to say this plainly, one more time. To everyone who has stood with me, the team that shows up early and stays late, the sponsors who believed before there was proof, and the community that keeps returning and bringing others with them: thank you. Your support carries this vision further than I could carry it alone, and I do not take a single one of you for granted. I promise you this. I will not disappoint you. This you can count on me for.

In diplomacy and sovereignty of culture,

Alfonso D. Brooks
Founder & Chairman, AfriKin Foundation, Inc.

afrikin.org • alfonsobrooks.com • afrikin.store • rockersmovement.com • rockersmovementradio.com
305-760-5515

Asé
We are AfriKin

AfriKin Foundation, Inc. — Maison AfriKin, 1600 NE 126th Street, Downtown North Miami, Florida — EIN: 85-2592611
Downtown North Miami's African Diaspora Cultural Institution