The Epilogue

Drawing on Starecheski’s premise (in Oral History Review:187–216, 2014) that when scholars produce knowledge that can be deployed by a movement in which they are allied, they become engaged in an iterative process of testing and refining that knowledge. Therefore, in keeping with the narrative tradition of my ancestral background, I offer my final investment in the form of an autoethnography as a thread to the literary narrative running throughout this book. The autoethnography provides an opportunity for the reader to engage actively and be immersed in the significance and evocative power of the perspective and performance of the storytellers (Ladson-Billings, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 11:7–24, 1998) and co-presence with the voices of those Global Majority leaders engaged in my study and their lived experiences.